linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] rds: Fix endian annotations across various assignments

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Message-ID: <20250810192612.GO222315@ZenIV>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:26:12 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: Ujwal Kundur <ujwal.kundur@...il.com>, allison.henderson@...cle.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
	pabeni@...hat.com, horms@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] rds: Fix endian annotations across various
 assignments

On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 08:41:49PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:

> This smells of an LLM generated patch.

Maybe, maybe not.

> So i think you are somewhat
> wasting your time explaining in detail why this is wrong. Well, maybe
> in a few generations of LLM it might learn from what you said, but
> that does not address the immediate problem.

You do realize that there _are_ humans out there, right?  Ones capable of
learning, that is...

> We need developers using LLM to accept they have often wrong, and you
> need to spend time and effort:
> 
> 1) Proving it got is wrong.
> 2) That after a lot of effort, failing to prove it wrong, accept it might be right.
> 3) Proving it actually got it right.
> 
> It took me about 60 seconds to prove the POLLERR change was wrong, and
> i know nothing about this code base. So it is in fact not a lot of
> effort.