Re: Patch pre-submission to Sashiko

[Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>]

On 10/19/26 1:27 PM, Theodore Tso wrote:
> As someone else has pointed out, students / hobbyists just use
> OpenCode with the review prompts with one of their free models, such
> as "Big Pickle".  That or a local quen3-coder-next (my current local
> LLM, when I'm not using my employer's cloud hosted models) might not
> be as good as Sashiko, but you can find a lot of the obvious issues
> first, before you send it to the public list.

Does the requirement to run a local LLM raise the barrier to start with
kernel coding? The following approach is not as good as running Sashiko
locally but can help those who can't run an LLM locally:
* Open the website of your favorite LLM.
* Enter the prompt "Create a prompt for performing a Sashiko-style Linux 
kernel patch review. In this context Sashiko refers to 
https://github.com/sashiko-dev/sashiko"
* Copy/paste the generated prompt. Do not submit it yet.
* Copy/paste the patches that should be reviewed into the LLM web
   browser session, e.g. with git format-patch ...; cat *.patch | wl-copy
* Submit the review prompt + patches to the LLM and let the LLM review
   your code.

Bart.