Linux Networking Continues Being Bombarded With AI Patches

While the Linux WiFi/wireless maintainer just announced taking a stand against AI/LLM generated slop patches with a new "three second review" rule, the broader Linux networking subsystem continues to be bombarded with AI-generated patches.

Jakub Kicinski sent out this week's set of networking patches ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc7 kernel test release on Sunday. In prior weeks he's called out the increase of AI-generated patches and "the new normal" with some weeks seeing double the count of typical patches for the networking area and continued craziness with no end in sight. This is even after earlier this year Linux 7.1 got rid of old network drivers, the ISDN subsystem, and other networking code in the name of AI/LLM noise around old/unused code.

Kicinski noted in today's networking pull request:

"Looks like our attempt to keep the PRs smaller have only prevented this one from getting even bigger. In the last 9 days there were 405 postings explicitly tagged with [PATCH net], vs 687 with [PATCH net-next]. 37% of posted patches being fixes is pretty crazy, and that's likely undercounting because LLM "researchers" more often post fixes without knowing to tag the patches for specific trees. I don't have historic data.

In any case, we keep adjusting the criteria. The next PR will be smaller."

And so it continues. This week's batch of bug and regression fixes are scattered throughout all the networking subsystem.