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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 7/7/26 12:01, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi David, > > Thanks for your patch! > > On Tue, 7 Jul 2026 at 11:53, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: >> --- a/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst >> +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst >> @@ -40,20 +40,37 @@ Attribution >> =========== >> >> When AI tools contribute to kernel development, proper attribution >> -helps track the evolving role of AI in the development process. >> -Contributions should include an Assisted-by tag in the following format:: >> +helps track the evolving role of AI in the development process. Further, >> +for reviewers and maintainers it is also crucially important to know how >> +AI tools were used. >> >> - Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] [TOOL2] >> +Contributions that used AI to generate significant portions of code, >> +comments, or patch descriptions must include an Assisted-by tag in the >> +following format:: >> >> -Where (preferred): >> + Assisted-by: LLM # brief description of usage >> + >> +Or alternatively:: >> + >> + Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION # brief description of usage >> + >> +Where:: >> >> * ``AGENT_NAME`` is the name of the AI tool or framework >> * ``MODEL_VERSION`` is the specific model version used >> -* ``[TOOL1] [TOOL2]`` are optional specialized analysis tools used >> - (e.g., coccinelle, sparse, smatch, clang-tidy) >> + >> +If other tools were used, they should be specified through a dedicated >> +Assisted-by tag in the following format:: >> + >> + Assisted-by: [TOOL1] [TOOL2] >> + >> +Where ``[TOOL1] [TOOL2]`` are specialized analysis tools used >> +(e.g., coccinelle, sparse, smatch, clang-tidy) > > Unlike LLMs above, all of these are deterministic... > >> >> Basic development tools (git, gcc, make, editors) should not be listed. > > ... just like these. > So why treat them different? I didn't write that original paragraph, so I really can't tell ... I mean, it is good practice to document usage of coccinelle at least, or when a problem was found through sparse. -- Cheers, David