Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Other LLM-related topics - tags, newcomers, etc

On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 07:59:02PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> What we *might* be able to try doing is to take an open-weight model
> that can fit on a 128GB machine, and then fine-tuning it by feeding it
> several years of LKML archives which we convniently have in public
> inbox format.  This might allow us to create a specialized model which
> is optimized for the Linux kernel, and it would be interesting to see
> how this compares with a general frontier model.

I think that will require a significant amount of tuning, because I doubt
anyone wants 2.6-era code generated by the LLM. We're also going to have to
consider any patches arriving post-2025 as potentially LLM-written whether
they carry the Assisted-by tag or not.

I'd go so far as to say that we DON'T want to feed unfiltered LKML archives
into the model -- we probably want to lean on the work done by the cregit
folks to identify patch sets that were actually accepted and then work
backwards, creating a subset of LKML that resulted in accepted contributions.

(Not that any other AI companies are bothered with this detail, as they are
scraping everything as fast as they can.)

-K