Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI

Linux kernel networking maintainer Paolo Abeni submitted a "significantly bigger" pull request for Linux 7.1-rc5 than typical for this stage of development, attributing the increased patch volume to AI coding agents like Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex. The influx of fixes, which includes regressions and bug patches across netfilter, bridge, IPv4, and other subsystems, continues despite Linus Torvalds' recent criticism of the unnecessary churn caused by AI-generated code.

Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI Last week's collection of networking subsystem fixes for Linux 7.1 noted The likes of Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex are still leading to increased patch activity with various fixes coming in heavy. Even with Linus Torvalds on Sunday in Linux 7.1-rc5 Paolo Abeni wrote in yesterday's And so it continues. craziness continuing with no end in sight https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Networking-Craziness with a large pull request of fixes with many of them spurred on by AI/LLM coding agents. This week it's "significantly bigger" than prior kernel cycles for this late stage of kernel development due to this assistance of large language models.The likes of Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex are still leading to increased patch activity with various fixes coming in heavy. Even with Linus Torvalds on Sunday in Linux 7.1-rc5 noting his disappointment in the many patches causing unnecessary churn https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-rc5-Released , it's continuing ahead of Linux 7.1-rc6 due out this weekend.Paolo Abeni wrote in yesterday's networking pull request https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3e20009988e2470063824c58b19d1c80816cc46d :"This is again significantly bigger than the same point into the previous cycle, but at least smaller than last week. I'm not aware of any pending regression for the current cycle. Including fixes from netfilter. Current release - regressions: - netfilter: walk fib6 siblings under RCU Previous releases - regressions: - netlink: fix sending unassigned nsid after assigned one - bridge: fix sleep in atomic context in netlink path - sched: fix ethx:ingress - ethy:egress - ethx:ingress mirred loop - ipv4: fix net- ipv4.sysctl local reserved ports UaF - eth: tun: free page on short-frame rejection in tun xdp one Previous releases - always broken: - skbuff: fix missing zerocopy reference in pskb carve helpers - handshake: drain pending requests at net namespace exit - ethtool: - rss: avoid modifying the RSS context response - module: avoid leaking a netdev ref on module flash errors - coalesce: cap profile updates at NET DIM PARAMS NUM PROFILES - netfilter: fix dst corruption in same register operation - nfc: hci: fix out-of-bounds read in HCP header parsing - ipv6: exthdrs: refresh nh pointer after ipv6 hop jumbo - eth: - vti: use ip6 tnl.net in vti6 changelink . - vxlan: do not reuse cached ip hdr value after skb tunnel check pmtu " And so it continues.