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Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:01:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.128] ([38.15.57.99]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 46e09a7af769-83039a3dfa1sm13350079a34.18.2026.10.13.13.01.15 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:01:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3c45e083-4e08-4699-adea-1d758baf8d0e@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:01:14 -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] docs: remove Assisted-by reference To: Laurent Pinchart , Mark Brown Cc: Jori Koolstra , Kees Cook , Randy Dunlap , Sasha Levin , corbet@lwn.net, federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it, apw@canonical.com, joe@perches.com, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan References: <20261009083137.3-1-sashal@kernel.org> <202610122124.08E058768D@keescook> <202610130120.E43D236E@keescook> <20261013125559.GG4214@killaraus.ideasonboard.com> <7524f3d6-02c0-488c-be76-23de8afc2b76@sirena.org.uk> <20261013170744.GA178151@killaraus.ideasonboard.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Shuah Khan In-Reply-To: <20261013170744.GA178151@killaraus.ideasonboard.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/13/26 11:07, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 04:18:32PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 02:55:59PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: >> >>> The absence of the tag on a suspicious series offered a low-effort way >>> for maintainers to push back. What's the proposed low-effort replacement >>> ? >> >> Greg's suggested asking "how did you test this?" or similar, a lot of >> people just throwing stuff at the wall simply won't respond. > > I've done that too. I still find it better to have multiple tools at my > disposal, I want to be able to tell people they're expected to disclose > that the code they submit was generated. Asking how the fix was found and tested has been helping me. I get silence or didn't test it and that ends the discussion. > > Maybe Documentation/process/generated-content.rst is enough. As I wrote, > what matters to me is the disclosure requirement, not the Assisted-by > tag as such. I'm however concerned that it's even easier for > contributors to ignore Documentation/process/generated-content.rst than > the tag. > We could add documentation to call out the need for telling us why the patch is necessary and how the code was verified in the commit message. This will save time asking those questions. thanks, -- Shuah