How AI Helps Maintain the Linux Kernel

July 4, 2025

, By The New Stack

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Meet AUTOSEL, a Linux maintainer that helps keep the kernel stable.

AUTOSEL is a script, one that uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to complete its task.

It does a thankless job, one loathed by all kernel maintainers, that of backporting patches.

Backporting patches is a “very tedious and frustrating process” that “doesn’t scale,” said NVIDIA Distinguished Software Engineer Sasha Levin, in a talk at the Open Source Summit. The presentation focused on how AI is starting to be used in the Linux kernel community to help keep up…

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How AI Helps Maintain the Linux Kernel

July 4, 2025

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Meet AUTOSEL, a Linux maintainer that helps keep the kernel stable.

AUTOSEL is a script, one that uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to complete its task.

It does a thankless job, one loathed by all kernel maintainers, that of backporting patches.

Backporting patches is a “very tedious and frustrating process” that “doesn’t scale,” said NVIDIA Distinguished Software Engineer Sasha Levin, in a talk at the Open Source Summit. The presentation focused on how AI is starting to be used in the Linux kernel community to help keep up…

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