Greg Kroah-Hartman's "clanker" branch started as his own experiment, where an AI-assisted fuzzing tool turned up real bugs in the ksmbd and SMB code. These days, he isn't the only one using it, as other contributors have started sending in patches of their own, tagged the same way. So when he posted a new AI policy a few days ago, restricting use of AI, it wasn't him turning against a tool he's comfortable with. It was a restriction that applied to one part of the kernel, the one place he doesn't want AI anywhere near the code. A line drawn while Linus makes peaceThis move lands right as Linus Torvalds is coming around on AI.