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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/13/26 14:15, Sasha Levin wrote: > Commit 78d979db6cef ("docs: add AI Coding Assistants documentation") asked > contributors to add an Assisted-by tag to patches developed with help from an > LLM, and commit 816d9992d9ed ("coding-assistants: simplify attribution") later > reduced the tag to "Assisted-by: LLM". > > A proposal to drop the tag was turned down in July [1]. The main argument for > keeping it was that maintainers wanted a signal that a patch was LLM-assisted, > so that they could review it accordingly. > > The tag came up again at the 2026 Maintainers Summit [2]. Roughly 10% of the > 18,533 non-merge commits in 7.3 through -rc7 carry an Assisted-by tag, while > actual LLM use is far more widespread. Some contributors do not know about the > rule, others leave the tag off on purpose, and few maintainers ask about it. As > a result, the tag does not provide the signal it was kept for: its absence says > nothing about how a patch was made, and for developers who use these tools for > almost everything, its presence says little more. The choice was between > finding a way to enforce the requirement and dropping it, and there was a > strong, though not unanimous, consensus in the room to drop it. Greg > Kroah-Hartman, who argued for keeping the tag in July, supports removing it now > [3]. > > Maintainers do still want to know how a patch was created, but the view at the > Summit was that this belongs in the cover letter, where it can describe how the > tools were used, rather than in the changelog. > Documentation/process/generated-content.rst already asks contributors to be > transparent about tool use and is not changed here. The rules on the DCO and on > the submitter's responsibility for the patch stay as they are. > > Remove the Assisted-by sections from coding-assistants.rst, > submitting-patches.rst, and the Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Traditional > Chinese translations, and drop the handling of the tag from checkpatch. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/2026070224-unholy-commode-cf45@gregkh/ > [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/ > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/2026101327-cupid-legal-6cf6@gregkh/ > > Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook > Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin > --- Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) -- Cheers, David