On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM John Hubbard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> As Joel also was hinting at, is there any easy way to get this sort
> of thing automatically checked? This is what scripts/checkpatch.pl
> helps us out with on the C side, and maybe it is also the right
> tool for Rust...?
We have a few patches for that script (including for at least one of
the things above), but lately I have been thinking we may want to have
a different script or tools, ideally written in Rust, to encourage
contributions and reviews and tests and so on.
Moreover, for some of the cases above it is better to put it into
other tooling like `rustdoc`, Clippy, `rustfmt` or even klint,
depending on what it is -- over time I have opened quite a few
suggestions and some were implemented and work great, see e.g.
https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/349
If someone wants to help with some of that, of course, please ping me!
I also had a bot I wrote back then when we used GitHub, with quite a
few checks (especially around development process for newcomers to the
kernel, e.g. using the right SoB and tags etc.) which people seemed to
appreciate (to the point of someone mentioning it in a talk... :).
A long time ago I asked about making the bot send messages to the
mailing list when we migrated, but it wasn't OK'd back then. I can try
again, or perhaps it would make sense to make it send messages in
private.
Finally, nowadays, I imagine an LLM could do a reasonable job for some
of these as well, if there is available AI time somewhere (please see
my reply to Joel on that too).
Cheers,
Miguel
