linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/2] Add AI coding assistant configuration to Linux kernel

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Message-ID: <aITB009h39D3-Otn@lappy>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 07:53:55 -0400
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To: Mario Limonciello <superm1@...nel.org>
Cc: workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, kees@...nel.org,
	konstantin@...uxfoundation.org, corbet@....net,
	josh@...htriplett.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Add AI coding assistant configuration to Linux kernel

On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 04:07:40AM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>>Example patch creation with Claude Code:
>>
>>	$ claude -p "Fix the dont -> don't typo in @Documentation/power/opp.rst. Commit the result"
>>	Done! The typo has been fixed and committed.
>
>Is this actually how people use AI agents?  I've never thought of 
>asking an agent to write a whole patch and commit the result.

Yup, there are a bunch of usecases for this, and while this is an
oversimplified example (that's why I picked a simple spelling fix that
the agent could get right "the first time").

See Kees' post at https://hachyderm.io/@kees/114907228284590439 , in
particular the buffer overflow fix where he logged his prompts.

>The way that I've seen it is things like Github Copilot within VScode 
>where there are inline suggestions.  It's kinda like clangd except it 
>suggests corrections to your mistakes instead of just underlining them 
>with red squiggles.
>
>Like if you messed up the argument and passed a pointer when it was 
>supposed to be a pointer to a pointer it will give you a little 
>tooltip correction.  But this is long before you would be ready to 
>actually commit a patch, heck it's before even testing it (obviously).
>
>The actual committing action would be by running 'git commit'.  So I 
>don't see how these tags could end up in there.

Even vscode has a commit feature which can help write commit
messages and actually commit them for you:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/sourcecontrol/overview

But yes, if you choose to manually handle the committing aspect then you
should also be manually attributing the agent :)

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha