On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:59:21 -0500 Aaron Conole <[email protected]> wrote:
> Much of the following sections can be written as part of checkpatch, > which means we don't need to spend compute resources with the AI on it. > For example, telling the AI that source files need to begin with SPDX > identifiers, line lenghts, tag format order, tag parsing, etc. The > downside is that if we ask the AI to *generate* code, then it won't > follow these rules; but when we ask AI to *review* the code, it takes > fewer tokens to submit and we can let the AI do the thing it really > shines at - recognizing subtle patterns, rather than stuff we can write > a python script to do. Also, the script now has many checkpatch ish things that are not in current script (and would bloat it). Examples are: * using const on function pointer tables * using rte_stdatomic * not using rte_smp_mb * using bool for flag values
