Re: Introduce Sashiko (agentic review of Linux kernel changes)

From: Chris Mason

Date: Wed Mar 18 2026 - 15:05:43 EST


On 3/18/26 2:33 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>> Finally, some subsystems have a good prompts coverage and some don't. It
>>> doesn't have to be lengthy documentation (and it might actually be
>>> counter-productive), but having a small list of things to look at - some
>>> high-level concepts which are hard to grasp from the code, etc. - can
>>> help a lot with both bug discovery and false positives.
>>
>> I guess best contributed to Chris's review-prompts repo right?
>
> Both works for me now, we'll figure out with Chris how to sync our
> prompts. The small problem is that we're using various models, tools and
> review protocols and barely can test each other's setup. And it's all
> very fragile, so it's not exactly trivial.
> But we'll figure out something soon.
>
> In general we need to carefully separate instructions (like which tools
> to use, which prompts to load etc) from factual data. Then we can easily
> use the factual data with various tooling around.

I'm really excited to see Roman's work go live, and we've been talking
about different ways to collaborate for a while. I don't really have
answers today other than just trying to iterate and do what works, but I
wanted to reply that I'm fully supportive.

-chris