Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Jul 2023 08:54:28 +1000 (AEST) | From | Finn Thain <> | Subject | Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Measurement, was Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Linux Contribution Maturity Model and the wider community |
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On Sat, 1 Jul 2023, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2023 at 11:46:18AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > BTW. I assume that 'Fixes' tags are already being used to train AI > > models to locate bugs in existing code. If this could be used to > > evaluate new patches when posted, it might make the code review > > process more efficient. > > That has been happening for many many years now with papers being > published about it and many conference presentations. It shouldn't be a > secret it's been happening and directly helping with stable kernel > maintenance for a long time. >
Many years ago it struck me that the deficiencies of checkpatch.pl could be addressed with coccinelle but I still don't see this happening on the lists I read.
I see reviewers being spared from having to examine many flawed patches because the zero-day bot intercepted them and fed them to static analyzers. But I still don't see coccinelle being used to the same end i.e. to reduce the burden on reviewers and maintainers.
Has no-one tried it, or did it not work out?
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