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a=zCTlKc1k35HTQteydV0A:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 cc=ntf awl=host:12069 X-Proofpoint-ORIG-GUID: 8SWyX7J73ORV8XvjBOkZ3QRcUPM-hvLz X-Proofpoint-GUID: 8SWyX7J73ORV8XvjBOkZ3QRcUPM-hvLz On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 12:25:59PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 07:49:24AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2025, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > > > Another genuinely good usage for AI is for especially non-English > > > speakers to tidy up their patch comments and other documentation. > > > > There are also some parts of the kernel that are supposed to have > > comments, such as memory barriers. AI could help ensure that the comments > > are actually meaningful, and perhaps suggest to the developer how they > > could be improved (sort of a 0-day for comment quality). > > > > I feel like I have seen patches where people have generated AI > documentation for locking. The problem is that if you ask AI to write > something it always has a very confident answer but normally it's vague > and slightly wrong. It takes no time to generate these patches but it > takes a while to review them. The async relationship between effort to generate vs. effort to review is a very serious aspect of all this. It's why I think it's aboslutely key to make all this _opt-in_ and to empower individual maintainers to decide how to handle these kinds of patches. > > regards, > dan carpenter Cheers, Lorenzo