On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 03:54:30PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 09:39:52AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:

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BTW, what is gkh_clanker_2000?

A hacked up system of tools/scripts I'm running here to find stuff like
"take this previously applied commit that fixed a problem, does the same
pattern need to be also done anywhere else in the tree"?  It finds a lot
of stuff and then I sift through it and see if anything is actually real
or not and if so, make up a patch for it.  It was my "merge window is
giving me a respite from reviewing patches" hobby project this past
week.

Now if I was really good, I could turn the output into a coccinelle
script, as this is just simple patterns.

It's a little surprising that nobody has asked an AI to do this sort of 
thing yet (as far as I know).  It's hard to say whether the results 
would be better than you get with your hacked-up system of 
tools/scripts, but it might be.

Alan Stern