Sasha Levin of NVIDIA proposed new guidelines (rules) for AI coding assistants like Claude and GitHub Copilot in Linux Kernel ...

But the bigger hurdle, says Ojeda, is getting Linux kernel contributors, who've been coding in C for decades, to learn Rust and its concepts. "In my view, the bigger obstacle comes from teachability.

Most recently, Coverity scanned 7.6 million lines of code in Linux 3.8 and found a defect density of just .59. A copy of Coverity’s full report is available as a free download.

It compared source code from the Unix System V release 4.1 software that SGI has licensed from SCO with a version of the Linux kernel released this June, SGI said.