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much, I'm not asking you to rewrite the > > document, or take an entirely different approach, I'm just saying that we > > should highlight that : > > > > 1. LLMs _allow you to send patches end-to-end without expertise_. > > As somebody who reviews a lot of networking patches, i already see > lots of human generated patches without expertise. So LLM might I mean we all have :) > increase the volume of such patches, but the concept itself is not > new, and does not require LLMs. The difference is the order of magnitude possible. There's a real barrier to entry for clueless people, and there's a linearity in time taken to generate submissions. LLMs don't change the problem, they change the magnitude. > > > 2. As a result, even though the community (rightly) strongly disapproves of > > blanket dismissals of series, if we suspect AI slop [I think it's useful > > to actually use that term], maintains can reject it out of hand. > > And i do blanket dismiss all but one such patch from an author, and i > try to teach that author how to get that one patch into shape, in the > hope you can learn the processes and apply it to their other > patches. Sometimes the effort works, and you get a new developers > joining the community, sometimes it is a lost cause, and they go away > after having their patches repeatedly rejected. > > So i don't think using LLMs makes a difference here. I've seen the > same issue with blindly fixing checkpatch warning, sparse warning, > other static analysis tool warnings. I just see LLMs are another such > tool. > > > Point 2 is absolutely a new thing in my view. > > And i would disagree with this statement, it is not new, it already > happens. Well this is the thing - it varies by subsystem. In mm it's really not like this. At any rate, given you disagree - the document suggesting that maintainers may dismiss out of hand shouldn't be in any way controversial :) I have submitted an incremental diff to make concrete what I'm suggesting at [0]. [0]:https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/611c4a95-cbf2-492c-a991-e54042cf226a@lucifer.local/ > > Andrew Cheers, Lorenzo