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Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] agents: add a skill to find other instances of a fixed bug From: "Alexei Starovoitov" To: "Sasha Levin" , , In-Reply-To: <20261012213452.1863248-5-sashal@kernel.org> References: <20261012213452.1863248-1-sashal@kernel.org> <20261012213452.1863248-5-sashal@kernel.org> X-Mailer: mkdraft (claude review draft; edit before sending) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 05:34 PM Sasha Levin wrote: > +Each confirmed site is a separate bug. It needs its own fix, and its own Fixes > +tag and stable decision, as described in agents/skills/find-fixes/guide.rst > +and agents/skills/stable-tag/guide.rst. Sites in different drivers or > +subsystems usually get separate patches, possibly in one series. I don't think it's a right message to send to agents and humans. When the same mistake is made in N places the interface is the problem. It should be fixed in one common place. This text tells the agent to produce N spot fixes for N maintainers. We already see this issue on bpf list, let's not amplify wrong behavior.