Subj : [$] The role of LLMs in patch review
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From : LWN.net
Date : Tue Mar 31 2026 16:45:07

[$] The role of LLMs in patch review

Date:
Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:40:56 +0000

Description:
Discussion of a memory-management patch set intended to clean up a helper 
function for
handling huge pages spiraled into something else entirely after it was posted 
on March19.
Memory-management maintainer Andrew Morton proposed making changes to the 
subsystem's review process, to require
patch authors to respond to feedback from Sashiko ,
the recently released LLM-based kernel patch review system . Other
sub-maintainers, particularly Lorenzo Stoakes, objected. The
resulting discussion about how and when to adopt Sashiko is potentially 
relevant
to many other parts of the kernel.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1064830/


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