Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add support for Assisted-by tag

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 08:33:26AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>On 2026-03-11 08:20, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>The Assisted-by tag was introduced in 
>>Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
>>for attributing AI tool contributions to kernel patches. However, 
>>checkpatch.pl
>>did not recognize this tag, causing two issues:
>[]
>>diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>[]
>>@@ -3105,6 +3106,13 @@ sub process {
>> 				}
>> 			}
>>
>>+			# Assisted-by uses AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION format, not email
>>+			if ($sign_off =~ /^Assisted-by:/i) {
>>+				if ($email !~ /^\S+:\S+/) {
>>+					WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF",
>>+					     "Assisted-by: expects 'AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] 
>>[TOOL2]' format\n" . $herecurr);
>>+				}
>
>I believe you could use next instead of this odd indentation avoidance.

Let me figure it out. My perl-fu is... questionable.

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Thanks,
Sasha