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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: =?utf-8?B?5L6v5pyL5pyL?= <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] media: dvb-frontends: ds3000: validate firmware size
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=E4=BE=AF=E6=9C=8B=E6=9C=8B <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn> writes:

> We are a systems software research group developing static analysis
> tools similar to Sparse and Coccinelle. Our goal is to publish at
> venues such as FSE and ICSE while also contributing useful fixes
> upstream.  Most of our kernel patches originate from findings reported
> by our tools and are reviewed both manually and with LLM
> assistance. Dynamic validation is often impractical, especially for
> hardware-dependent driver code, and emulation is not always
> sufficient. We therefore rely mainly on static analysis and careful
> review, and often state this way in our prior patches:The issue was
> identified through static analysis and manually reviewed.

Which is all good and fine, and the fixes are appreciated, but you need
to be citing the tools in your changelogs.  Please see

	Documentation/process/researcher-guidelines.rst

and

        Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst

Thanks,

jon