From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-pl1-f196.google.com (mail-pl1-f196.google.com [209.85.214.196]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B7EF319DF66 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2025 18:07:34 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=209.85.214.196 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1754676456; cv=none; b=P0PhNac1CNm5Ywb7DapZQJxlVv4r/fQG0ISLBq90TgVrJ3kzW7cN42SI+B9Yvf70tB29p0zYPd+LvLy86dJcdQNx1dESmoVvVyYgCQjJA+O8PYRshsR5PI4u3NDH7hmMsYC/zKxnjf8F6gEWLe6Kxtdhs1TbzTUtTIwDUk7M/rA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1754676456; c=relaxed/simple; bh=y4aTgjecTMm7mWG9roqV7jvtYXxn0wcHUtjjq5zztQk=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=gs9QGpak95PS9FhnW8NCfeOMUIFHQnVnVStGnyTvZpltO8h6fgV40TEU0VrCnquYhWzJ4nDJ4c1dGTmVPLIuMD0EdO8BwpMJEWM0m4LA8VZLEo6Zqk+irtc1CiTtvLLn19fIFXRrE7qasfcwq4TF3hq1dXjY6SSao8c7NsHX1VQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=baylibre.com; arc=none smtp.client-ip=209.85.214.196 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=baylibre.com Received: by mail-pl1-f196.google.com with SMTP id d9443c01a7336-23c8f179e1bso33718845ad.1 for ; Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:07:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1754676454; x=1755281254; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:message-id:date:references :in-reply-to:subject:cc:to:from:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=sdZE+LrZ1Dtr2wN/ldnaGqQLq+Kia3E7wlZDmnHjMTY=; b=l3ivgrdPTHq+Ph9guyu1rBjYo4pWjIMcN8YOPw/RJ4FPOXWzdcO8El+eXryGR+wKkW p9Bp/zrlezS+ueJCsCnpJZQN0ozk9RQ57gW9yCpjwpOHZmuQrmzNm3cWoehxVwfCM/jo lZNMncsz69f3KWGAu2+Zw9QUW4Pq6qAvQ8kleukhc9YwU7e2napnQZcetl0lMx7qqPH+ LIX2UfWXloCYOJSQF+GEBrQ19F75LkeTU2psl5DeDcZa8BB/b3bCEmIsjHewmUqSuyfI nTJ9Omkj5aEEUcaj6zg257nF0c7A2zPLFdTEuS6OQ4EkyJamXCQStuA+GcfFYM8H+Svr I9sw== X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=1; AJvYcCUfSCy1+Z0fuEGG/kSWHfHkivu3vhtMcS8tJM2AdnlxqCAC7T7taMSKGo1FtUVr/pzQUBM9KcBst6g=@vger.kernel.org X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0Yzppw07Uu9SyY65Byt89DDQGOtMaumWILZc0XSkt7dWj4Psk+zL GjydO0dlTniz9ZhQpkqFXwLd/M7LgH6kQf0KsyP7mxpbnuwlSL3aS/JPkWHjV3qZQ/8= X-Gm-Gg: ASbGncskcIUoQxmLHD6YZz/vdKi3sHW4Xkz51Xd9qsrTfhtZlroP6Fr8f4o2PG7cn2g zJwZZiavix3yqH6yZmNuYBfl1cNamN9Ni9YsxOXTHfvssYAcZb9W1OpyfOaT/d3vyhrim7PyfHi RhecHvKX6pJL/M2CSa/JIuRHlZS7cMVpRMPK3c3kxl5zfv45C9EjamULtmdwS/hCV5HqIwruhRf kJr0Gd7yWOdacs+NkKZ4zKX7qv2h10GxmZ9mxqNi4PygDyaNe7ppSh8aAqwyeWXwTag/tj9I5cL BX+y9wGjvVD4c13K8TnahxdZP/+qHrSSwv3tM25iT38yxbRv4Cp4C3VRjqq9rwGVbTk9541U10m X+Jaqeez2IOyXsBa55/Sc X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IH35AlHh+s+M4//5c5YAnKFpceo2gtMQAaeMl/FUzycglSJE0ISmMUC/H0y13AQEA96RBISWw== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:d4c1:b0:234:e655:a632 with SMTP id d9443c01a7336-242c225f5edmr58470705ad.51.1754676453957; Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:07:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([71.212.208.158]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d9443c01a7336-241d1ef658esm216589265ad.3.2025.08.08.11.07.33 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:07:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Hilman To: Rob Herring Cc: Sasha Levin , corbet@lwn.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, josh@joshtriplett.org, kees@kernel.org, konstantin@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] agents: add unified agent coding assistant configuration In-Reply-To: References: <20250727195802.2222764-1-sashal@kernel.org> <20250727195802.2222764-2-sashal@kernel.org> <7h1ppxcp0d.fsf@baylibre.com> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:07:32 -0700 Message-ID: <7hwm7d661n.fsf@baylibre.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rob Herring writes: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 5:06=E2=80=AFPM Kevin Hilman = wrote: >> >> Sasha Levin writes: >> >> > Create a single source of truth for agent instructions in >> > Documentation/AI/main.md with symlinks for all major coding >> > agents: >> > - CLAUDE.md (Claude Code) >> > - .github/copilot-instructions.md (GitHub Copilot) >> > - .cursorrules (Cursor) >> > - .codeium/instructions.md (Codeium) >> > - .continue/context.md (Continue) >> > - .windsurfrules (Windsurf) >> > - .aider.conf.yml (Aider) >> >> This doesn't work for aider, probably because the .md it links to is not >> YAML. When I start aider with this, I get: >> >> aider: error: Couldn't parse config file: while scanning a simple key >> in "/work/kernel/linux/.aider.conf.yml", line 3, column 1 >> could not find expected ':' >> in "/work/kernel/linux/.aider.conf.yml", line 4, column 1 >> >> Not related to this series, but related to aider... I'm curious if >> anyone has got aider to work with the kernel repo. It seems to have >> problems with large repos. When starting in the kernel, I get: >> >> Unable to list files in git repo: cannot close exported pointers exist >> Is your git repo corrupted? >> Unable to read git repository, it may be corrupt? >> cannot close exported pointers exist >> >> but neither claude nor gemini-cli have any problems with the same repo. >> >> The aider FAQ[1] mentions using .aiderignore to ignore parts of the >> repo, but even with an "ignore everything" rule, I get the same error, >> so something seems wrong with aider and large repos. > > It worked for a bit for me, but then aider fell over after a while and > refused to run with errors accessing git. Some suggestions to repack > the repo didn't help. In the end, I just ran it without any git > awareness. Do you mean just using the --no-git option to aider? Kevin