On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 02:29:08PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 03:12:43PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 01:59:33PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
>
> > > Ignoring is the only workable long-term solution.
> >
> > How do you decide which patches to ignore ?
>
> Anything that looks schloppy. ATM it's very easy to tell.
>
> In future it will be newcomers who do anything but the most trivial work. Or
> they will at least be super-deprioritised.
As people tend to quote Linus in this mail thread, it's important to
recall what he (and others) said during the maintainer summit: the
kernel developers who code without using LLMs are not just tolerated, we
*want* them. We want them to learn and contribute, we *want* more
juniors who are genuinely participating.
It was very clear during the discussions that raising the barrier to
entry applied to LLM-generated contributions ("they have no excuse for
being anything but perfect" - not a litteral quote as I didn't record
the conversation, but the closest I can do based on my memory), not to
human coders.
> Yes there will be collateral damage, but it's that or no more open source
> (we're
> not the only ones going through this!)
Think how you will feel the day you will be treated as collateral
damage.
I find this mail thread it taking an almost cynical and violent turn.
Are people rejoicing at the prospect of actively discriminating against
sincere contributors, or am I misreading it ? The kernel community needs
more care.
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
