Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] ARM: dts: qcom: msm8960: expressatt: Sort node references and includes

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 07/04/2026 23:46, David Heidelberg wrote:
> On 07/04/2026 23:04, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 07/04/2026 22:39, Rudraksha Gupta wrote:
>>>
>>> On 4/7/26 12:59, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>> On 01/04/2026 22:32, Rudraksha Gupta via B4 Relay wrote:
>>>>> From: Rudraksha Gupta <guptarud@gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Reorganize the DTS file for consistency with other msm8960 board files.
>>>>>
>>>>> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Rudraksha Gupta <guptarud@gmail.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>    .../dts/qcom/qcom-msm8960-samsung-expressatt.dts   | 408 +++++++++++----------
>>>>>    1 file changed, 207 insertions(+), 201 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>> Sorry, but no. We are not taking Claude as one determining coding style.
>>>> Are we going to do the work again the moment we come with proper tool?
>>>
>>> There is no tool currently to auto format DTS, and doesn't seem to be
>>> coming for a while:
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvoIbTL_ZQA
>>>
>>>
>>> Claude didn't determine the coding style. I did based on sony-huashan,
>>> which is already upstream:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom/qcom-msm8960-sony-huashan.dts
>>>
>>>
>>> I just used Claude to do the manual work for me. In v2, I made sure the
>>> diff before and after the change was nill. v3 included additional
>>> changes requested by Konrad and some comments that I remembered during
>>> prior attempts mainlining patch series for this device.
>>
>> IMO, it is just too risky to let Claude reorganize the nodes, but I
>> assume reviewers of your code did run dtx_diff.
> 
> I think it depends on the prompt. Since I’m performing many of the same tasks 
> repeatedly across multiple sdm845 devices, asking an LLM to do node-by-node 
> reorganization can be reasonably reviewable (at least when reviewing incremental 
> progress, not just the final diff).
> 
> I would prefer to do more of the sorting myself, but I find it quite tedious. 
> The diff tool struggles when similar or identical lines appear in different 
> nodes, which often results in a messy final diff (I noticed this in Sajattack’s 
> sdm845 LG patchset).
> 
> This leads me to an idea:
> 
> For these sorting cleanups, perhaps we could introduce a “squash mode”?
> 
> Contributors could submit commits per node, making the reorganization clearly 
> visible (and ensuring nothing is accidentally lost), and then the maintainer 
> could squash them into a single commit to avoid cluttering the git log.
> 
> What do you think?

It would help review on the lists, although the actual solution is to
use deterministic tools. That's why usage of Claude is wrong. It
requires you and us to thoroughly review it. If you did not thoroughly
review that patch, you would be sending microslop.

Best regards,
Krzysztof