Re: Patch pre-submission to Sashiko

[Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 08:10:44PM +0000, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> > On Sat, 17 Oct 2026 at 07:39, Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Another option I'd like to propose would be to introduce a way for
> >> submitters to run patches through back-and-forth with Sashiko even before
> >> properly submitting the Sashiko-polished v1 to maintainers and
> >> mailinglists.
> >
> > I think maybe we should make it really easy for people to run their
> > some kind of sashiko setup on their own, rather than rely on sashiko
> > itself. After all, these are all people who use an LLM to begin with.
> 
> It is really easy now:
> $ cargo install sashiko
> $ sashiko init
> set the LLM key
> $ cd linux && sashiko review HEAD^5..HEAD

FWIW, I have been using this for a while now (and making this "local
review" mode more ergonomic). With Anthropic's recent "API credit" stuff,
this works very well with the Haiku model (Opus is outrageous over-kill
and charges you 40x more than haiku).

-- 
Kees Cook