Re: [MAINTAINERS / KERNEL SUMMIT] AI patch review tools

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 02:19:58PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 12:31:48PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > On 10/9/25 10:30 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > One way I see this working is to attach it to patchwork. Sending a patch to
> > > the BPF mailing list has their patchwork trigger a bunch of tests and it
> > > will tell you if it passed or failed. I'm assuming if it failed, it doesn't
> > > add it to patchwork and the maintainers will ignore it.
  
> > > Attaching AI to patchwork could be useful as well. But this would run on
> > > some server that someone will have to pay for. But it will not be the
> > > submitter.
  
> > Just to clarify, that's what already happens with BPF today.
  
> > Ex: https://github.com/kernel-patches/bpf/pull/9962 are all from the
> > review prompts.
 
> This almost relieves me from the guilt not to have reviewed that series
> from Alan ;-\

But this goes back to "developers should run these tools before
submitting upstream", which would provide them with reviewing comments
that would improve the quality of their pull requests by using all the
money that is being dreamed into AI and would saved all of us from
looking at github, etc, before AI is satisfied with the quality of the
submitters work?

Its all about what should distract maintainers (humans?), no?

- Arnaldo