From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21D0D7261C; Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:23:21 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1753709002; cv=none; b=f2tI+zxKMSU+kk1PX9U8HpdcB4jHJbdTsJUPPopszFQQjXB8nkCcZis8qsUCb1pn4D3QYT4ZyFoJPT7RPCXT+e3fis59fVWaf8viPmHikwKwEObY7K5B5evXyQTVe3ush+Vdhorl6MDf2O7UTmgEYkJvTuKB9DKUjWYgSexvwW0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1753709002; c=relaxed/simple; bh=kxT5qQEdoccDCbNV4vcp4AYNP+/tytHZPwIBmcnm6kI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=HJPSdL/WjmAg0fv6fDjJt4smBbS/Ahu1plskH/IG3nGFSnl2W5sLy+790Dpp6IdQrXjBGkdOTpvUAyrGmiw0KCYvs0mQFqMi4mWfjHvf+yhnHDunA6yUfgGq2bEpIYKYgOQymgmFzlvPY/saP/nXj2nMVVEodRjNK+mXWlr9Exc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=HP1gqMlM; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="HP1gqMlM" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 679B5C4CEE7; Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:23:21 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1753709001; bh=kxT5qQEdoccDCbNV4vcp4AYNP+/tytHZPwIBmcnm6kI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=HP1gqMlMNJx4VhqhivuQzgTFFtoNNtf15aiy+54/WmZqrayp1i5O2RicDDQgAD5Bi UJYQXYYI8J58+/1upE1sKVxPDALievJ0CzY6LKX1zUKu3Lpo7oov1z+7V1rIEkhmLR NQ8n1CmoAIROdMQYmHkaXSpMdRJg0phC1BdMbpRfO2nW+kQNlbqx7bH/wRXpQUaLNs OfhfVy0vXAbwJ+TBhXIu9qFZTR1aRSF7Cw3/FYdiQfwTCQX3rE0eBcFCLLHDFdhkxS 5c/PgNKv+DkxLbnRwQ34/sX4ndWwhqGOkK5oyi+ZCdvfkIuZituUCQ+6w1NU4xZmfd 2bFBs01wTsWXQ== Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:23:19 -0400 From: Sasha Levin To: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Greg KH , corbet@lwn.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, josh@joshtriplett.org, kees@kernel.org, konstantin@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add agent coding assistant configuration to Linux kernel Message-ID: References: <20250727195802.2222764-1-sashal@kernel.org> <7e7f485e-93ad-4bc4-9323-f154ce477c39@lucifer.local> <2025072854-earthen-velcro-8b32@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 02:13:01PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: >On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 08:45:19AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: >> > So at all times I think ensuring the human element is aware that they need >> > to do some kind of checking/filtering is key. >> > >> > But that can be handled by a carefully worded policy document. >> >> Right. The prupose of this series is not to create a new LLM policy but >> rather try and enforce our existing set of policies on LLMs. > >I get that, but as you can see from my original reply, my concern is more >as to the non-technical consequences of this series. > >I retain my view that we need an explicit AI policy doc first, and ideally >this would be tempered by input at the maintainer's summit before any of >this proceeds. > >I think adding anything like this before that would have unfortunate >unintended consequences. > >And as a maintainer who does a fair bit of review, I'm likely to be on the >front lines to that :) Oh, appologies, I'm not trying to push for this to be included urgently: if there's interest in waiting with this until after maintainer's summit/LPC I don't have any objection with that. My point was more that I want to get this series in a "happy" state so we have it available whenever we come up with a policy. I'm thinking that no matter what we land on at the end, we'll need something like this patch series to try and enforce that on the LLM side of things. -- Thanks, Sasha