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ggrobot
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 Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2026 11:19 pm Post subject: AI Makes Huge Linux Kernel Updates the New Normal [66686] |
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Linus Torvalds says oversized Linux kernel release candidates have become the â??new normal,â? partly thanks to AI tools. In the announcement for Linux 7.2-rc7, he noted the release candidate is unusually large due to many small fixes uncovered by AI-assisted code reviews. Torvalds admitted he is â??not exactly
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Csimbi
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| Quote: | | sees no serious problems in the changes |
Does not sound very reassuring.
Did he check all the changes?
Does that mean it's full of minor ones? |
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heretic
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Another week, another -rc.
I can't say that I'm exactly thrilled about the size of this all, but
it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due
to review by various AI tools.
And nothing looks particularly scary per se - it's just that there's a
lot here. Most of it is fairly small, although we have a couple of
larger diffs: s390/zcrypt fixes stand out in the diffstat, and so does
btrfs bringing back the fixup worker infrastructure. And some
netfilter ipset fixes.
But aside from a few places like that, most of this is just lots of
tiny fixes. It's pretty much spread all over - drivers (gpu, sound,
networking, you name it), filesystems, core networking, arch code..
I don't currently see any value in delaying the 7.2 release, so I
would expect that to happen next weekend unless something really bad
pops up.
Linus
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lorcro2000
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People who don't know how to code should not be allowed to "code" using an LLM.
People who *do* know how to code can use them, and then verify the work.
It's fine as a work saver and efficiency improver. Less fine if it's just doing its own thing. |
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