Linus Torvalds tagged Linux 7.4-rc2 on Sunday, November 8, and the weekly note that came with it had a line worth stopping on. He passed along a claim from BPF maintainer Alexei Starovoitov: in his corner of the kernel, fixes are now landing faster than new bug reports arrive. After […]
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Linus Torvalds does not do subtle. When Laurent Pinchart argued on the kernel mailing list that the Linux kernel still needs a way to set expectations around AI-assisted patches, Torvalds told him to stop using compilers and write his submissions in assembler. He added that Pinchart should skip the text […]
Linus Torvalds spent the better part of a day chasing a bug that had been sitting in the Linux kernel for two years. The actual fix came down to one line of logic. Finding it took eighteen kernel boots, twenty four debug patches, and an AI assistant that kept telling […]