On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 05:16:06PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:59:05 +0000 Russell King (Oracle) wrote:

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and there's no way to find out for about 9 hours (more like 19 hours
for me because of the timezone) as the AI reviews are not accessible
until then.  

The patchwork checks are for maintainers. If someone wants to build
a public CI for contributors that'd be great. We can even provide
funds from the netdev foundation. But let us be clear that the current
setup is until now maintained primarily by me for me on the weekends.
Unless you make an effort to actually help I don't think it is in good
taste to complain.  

This sounds like my contributions to netdev aren't valued, and if that's
the case, I will stop.

Quite the opposite, what I'm saying is that your complaints make me
feel like the weekends spent on trying to make this project come out 
of stone age testing-wise are not appreciated. Of course your
contributions are appreciated.

The AI code reviews on existing buggy code are indeed very painful.
Not sure what we can do here to make the contributing easier.
It costs us around $2 now to review a single patch so we can't afford
public access. I think Google is working on making Gemini code reviews
public and free, hopefully that materializes.

For a series of this size and complexity, the AI reviews are valued
because it's finding real issues that I can't test for.

The big problem is that the AI only finds one issue with a patch, not
all the issues. So, it's going to take multiple submissions to get to
a point where the AI review of this series is clean.

I suspect the problem with "AI only finds one issue" is that the AI
systems aren't advanced enough to do anything else yet.

So, do I continue fixing the AI issues each day and resubmitting a new
version of this series each day this week, costing $44 each time? Do
we reach a point where it gets merged even though the AI review still
has issues?

These are honest questions... and if they haven't been considered, I
think they need to be, because I can see this series becoming very
expensive.

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