Re: Re: [PATCH] media: dvb-frontends: ds3000: validate firmware size
From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Sun Aug 30 2026 - 19:06:26 EST
侯朋朋 <pengpeng@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> We are a systems software research group developing static analysis
> tools similar to Sparse and Coccinelle. Our goal is to publish at
> venues such as FSE and ICSE while also contributing useful fixes
> upstream. Most of our kernel patches originate from findings reported
> by our tools and are reviewed both manually and with LLM
> assistance. Dynamic validation is often impractical, especially for
> hardware-dependent driver code, and emulation is not always
> sufficient. We therefore rely mainly on static analysis and careful
> review, and often state this way in our prior patches:The issue was
> identified through static analysis and manually reviewed.
Which is all good and fine, and the fixes are appreciated, but you need
to be citing the tools in your changelogs. Please see
Documentation/process/researcher-guidelines.rst
and
Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
Thanks,
jon