Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution

[Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 05:33:12PM +0200, Jori Koolstra wrote:
>
> > Op 02-07-2026 17:07 CEST schreef Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 10:32:48AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > We've had this requirement in place in the Documentation for several
> > > months, but it's becoming clear that the signal to noise ratio from this
> > > is quite low.
> > >
> > > 1/ It's not universally followed. While many people do try to attribute
> > > the LLMs in good faith, not everyone does for various reasons.
> >
> > Then let's move to get people to follow it.
> >
> > > 2/ It basically serves as free advertising for proprietary LLM companies.
> >
> > Who cares, make up a name, all I want is the "signal" that someone is
> > using a LLM so that I can review it as-such.  And if I think someone is
> > not reporting that, I can ask for them to properly attribute it and if
> > they lie, well, that's on them.
> >
> > > 3/ It's not clear why we want to collect this info in the first place.
> >
> > We want to know if a LLM is being used.
> >
> > > Given that the data this provides is flawed at best and is being
> > > collected for a purpose that isn't clear, let's just kill the
> > > requirement for these tags from the kernel at large.
> >
> > No, please do not do this.  It's useful already for many patches in my
> > subsystems, and is only going to be used more in the future.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Why not:
>
> Keep the tag like David suggested as:
>
> Assisted-by: LLM # automated removal of useless blabla
>
> I am indifferent to whether this should be a tag or just below the --- .
>
> And add something like the systemd guidelines that Christian linked to to the
> AI Coding Assistants doc page. This provides much more useful guidelines than
> what is currently there. I triggered this whole discussion by reading the page
> and adding the model to some clean-up commits, so some people do read it...

Yup am fine with all that!

>
> Best,
> Jori.

Thanks, Lorenzo