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Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.128] ([38.15.57.99]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 006d021491bc7-6f56b25672bsm6940770eaf.11.2026.10.13.16.21.23 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <375451e1-a960-49a0-91e8-26afe5c985d6@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:21:21 -0600 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: remove Assisted-by references To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" , Sasha Levin , Jonathan Corbet Cc: Randy Dunlap , Federico Vaga , Daniel Pereira , Chen-Yu Yeh , Weijie Yuan , Dongliang Mu , Andy Whitcroft , Joe Perches , Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Laurent Pinchart , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Steven Rostedt , Lorenzo Stoakes , Kees Cook , Jori Koolstra , Jeff Layton , Christian Brauner , Vlastimil Babka , Jakub Kicinski , Christoph Hellwig , Mark Brown , Jens Axboe , Brian Foster , Carlos Maiolino , David Disseldorp , Jani Nikula , Justin Stitt , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan References: <20261013121501.3738437-1-sashal@kernel.org> <0dbd9197-3fce-431c-9874-926f03f662f8@kernel.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Shuah Khan In-Reply-To: <0dbd9197-3fce-431c-9874-926f03f662f8@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/13/26 08:47, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: > 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) > Acked-by: Shuah Khan