Re: [RFC 0/2] Add AI coding assistant configuration to Linux kernel

[<dan.j.williams@intel.com>]

Jakub Kicinski wrote:
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> To be clear, it's not my main point, my main point is that 
> the information is of no proven use right now. As long as
> committer follows the BKP of adding Link: https://patch.msgid.link/...
> we can find the metadata later.
> 
> We never found the need to attach the exact version of smatch / sparse
> / cocci that found the bug or "wrote" a patch. Let us not overreact to
> the AI tools.
> 
> > Also, I would argue that it would be useful in the change log as if there's
> > a bug in the generated code, you know who or *what* to blame. Especially if
> > there is a pattern to be found.
> 
> This touches on explainability of AI. Perhaps the metadata would be
> interesting for XAI research... not sure that's enough to be lugging
> those tags in git history.

Agree. The "who to blame" is "Author:". They signed DCO they are
responsible for debugging what went wrong in any stage of the
development of a patch per usual. We have a long history of debugging
tool problems without tracking tool versions in git history.