Re: [PATCH] docs: remove Assisted-by references

["Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>]

+cc the participants from that thread FYI. The original patch is at [2].

On Fri, Oct 09, 2026 at 12:05:06PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 09/10/2026 10:31, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > The Maintainers Summit reached consensus to deprecate the Assisted-by
> > tag. Remove the documentation requiring it.
>
> Please provide here some sort of arguments used in that summit
> consensus/discussion. This basically reverts/changes previous consensus
> [1], which is fine itself, but it lacks reasoning.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/2026070224-unholy-commode-cf45@gregkh/

Thanks for linking that! It is important to ack previous discussion on
this. Also LWN article is up now at [3].

I'm less bothered than you might think by this change.

The tag's useful for push back on review, but the only long-term strategy for
slop is to aggressively ignore it.

Linus has made that clear that that's fine.

What kills the project is having 1,000 slop submissions that 2 or 3 people have
to do something with.

The only long-term solution to that is to hit mark read 1,000 times :)

Sasha - maybe worth linking the LWN article now it's up in the commit message
and adding a little more detail around the decision?

Otherwise LGTM:

Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>

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Cheers, Lorenzo

[2]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261009083137.3-1-sashal@kernel.org/
[3]:https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/