Seems we have confirmation this 'Josh Law' guy is an openclaw bot - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ae7dc[email protected]/

As I said in https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1e982055-[email protected]/ :

"I feel that LLMs are not like any other tools but in fact represent
something entirely new in that you can end-to-end send patches using this
tooling with little to no knowledge and the asymmetry between maintainer
resource and the possible slurry of submissions that might arise makes this
very significantly different.

I know Linus had the cute interpretation of it 'just being another tool'
but never before have people been able to do this."

Of course Linus slapped me down with his 'just more tooling' take which was gleefully reported on by the press (e.g. https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/08/linus_versus_llms_ai_slop_docs/ )

I'll let you decide whether these are 'just like any other tool' or not.

BTW 'Josh Law' more than doubled his sent emails in a week or 2 to 370+.

Of course I'm sure coccinelle has that feature and I just wasn't aware 👀

Re: [PATCH] mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based NUMA memory tiering module - Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)

@ljs Interesting, I didn't see that this entity had graduated from wanting to be the lib/ maintainer to generating memory-tiering modules for DAMON. Quite the flexible guy! And here I was getting irritated because "he" thought that sending Acked-by responses to random typo-fix documentation patches was somehow helpful...
@corbet @ljs This is only going to get worse, because the cost of entry is super low and the benefits of getting your name into the Linux kernel are pretty high.
@monsieuricon @ljs I agree ... and we are absolutely unprepared for it.

I've been getting a bunch of stuff from this creature:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Somehow I'm supposed to accept 1000 lines of uncommented JavaScript and Jinja2 - to run in the browser of everybody who pulls up the kernel docs - from a new contributor who summoned it from a machine.

I grow weary of this timeline sometimes.
[PATCH] docs: add advanced search for kernel documentation - Rito Rhymes

@corbet @ljs @monsieuricon Is 'reroll' a term that is used in this space (like rolling out a patch), or is it what slopcoders consider development now (like roll a die, hope for a natural 20)?
@jelte @corbet @monsieuricon rickroll is more appropriate