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Now that's a heel turn if I've ever seen one.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74818680

https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/08/msg00041.html

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[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Headline is a neuron activation lightning rod. Torvalds used the model to debug, the code is a one word fix he probably wrote himself.

This is the actual commit:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/818bebeb63dd6bf5f4e07e145f6cdbace520a34c

It fixes a goof where Intel Xe drivers allocate a few kb of memory that is used by the system during boot that causes the video to stop working. The fix is round_down() the memory allocation instead of round_up() the memory allocation. That's pretty much the entire code change. round_up() -> round_down(). The commit message makes a lot of sense, and this bug is something you'd be spending a lot of time on manually debugging due to how insidiously subtle it is. Torvalds used the AI model to help debug the problem, but I'm pretty sure a one word change in code is not an AI generated code... and if changing one word is what the AI really did in the end, where do you draw the line at copyright? Challenging the copyright of individual words is impossible to enforce, because the word is used everywhere.

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