From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (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 A4C803AA1BC; Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:30:57 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1791891058; cv=none; b=CaW9G3a33TY2YqJ2D8UxeWiG8xjEt9qrcOZzpaa11kKqFoVbjfHtXKhRGkGOzg8q/A4hEgSLkyiDQOHNK2nP9Oz6a9tRO0M29lHN6WffpPUsJ4VRWndozikE6My+BbiBcuuG0/qYd4QRhzg1UZLDSqFjTLWS3vEnWXOer/sogtY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1791891058; c=relaxed/simple; bh=RnkN4bY2Lk20tMpJYmBIHo2tjqMfj5MnirqzRA7j+1E=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=OhjFDSt2jgrT5q+xsYLrMuaNF1Thre8Ga1t60MvGPrLSu7cia8ZCWPH5uML8e4q6JdIugGMkuZLrQoUcEDo+F3dD1g1v3XdH0RfvC/M+qmNsK6oRoUe5YB8L6f8QefT9zyqM3RdIzbEsD33pi870Kvko4jTG4Cvb/b5GJSYdzZ4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=hhfxtXBi; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="hhfxtXBi" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3F1A71F00893; Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:30:57 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1791891057; bh=FTbF7z9gNlrYjkSRi4s6iYQzDYzP976uZAEpq2p99Mw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=hhfxtXBiI6XRMT1Wi4jgQehRoZatyoXyOcDA2bejwphZAb/uZdRhCctvs/wdgeIJf 2DlCunDQknuJMaweO5HYTYH2rEfDynyxx1bBE/y2oskkqkeulgP4aYx0N+ZvfdJwa+ 5dhPBfPWf9s4ZXHAbGZrZnwEm6gwjvgh0WT8dGPH9zMUce38inlBPxw+NIjpN5+Yq3 yBHvEubxAEBjh2/WdXahMMB92Kns8R/MResKPAPda51FytFDORQmQqnWzbdaMoBHx8 G3ltTijY0k/F2hexpFe9syoxma+bBqKr6P3HYgO7+uG1opGoXm4XBYEwFicKDZf4ko oYWognff4o7tQ== Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:30:56 -0400 From: Sasha Levin To: Kees Cook Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org, ksummit@lists.linux.dev, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Randy Dunlap , Mark Brown , Theodore Ts'o , Laurent Pinchart , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Leon Romanovsky , Konstantin Ryabitsev , Thorsten Leemhuis , "Michael S . Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] agents: add a skill to determine stable tags Message-ID: References: <20261012213452.1863248-1-sashal@kernel.org> <20261012213452.1863248-4-sashal@kernel.org> <202610122057.6091D70BB@keescook> 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: <202610122057.6091D70BB@keescook> On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 08:59:31PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: >On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 05:34:50PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: >> +A stable tag in the sign-off area asks the stable team to backport a commit to >> +the stable and longterm trees once it is merged in mainline. The tag syntax is >> +described in Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst. Deciding on a tag >> +requires knowing whether the change is stable material, which released kernels >> +contain the bug, and whether the fix applies to them. > >And I really don't like this redundancy either. The skill should be >strictly as short as it can possibly be and then aim at the _existing_ >documentation. If agents are getting something wrong after reading >Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst, then we need to add the >changes _there_, not in a parallel agent-only file. I would want to see >all these skills designed to give the framework needed by the agent to >find the _existing_ documentation. w.r.t to your comments on verbosity/duplication on a few of the patches: I'll try and reduce it, and will run the local test rig I have for this. I'll see how we can minimize them. -- Thanks, Sasha