Re: [PATCH] coding-assistants: simplify attribution

["David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>]

On 8/4/26 10:10, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 04:48:03PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 02:34:40PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>> -  Assisted-by: Claude:claude-3-opus coccinelle sparse
>>> +  Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle sparse
>>
>> I've been playing with this a bit, and it's pretty easy to teach the agent to
>> add a few tag-like notes as to how exactly it was used, e.g.:
>>
>>     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/commit/?id=018b87444d32eb2ffee7cb25f0785e54aa35f7bf
>>
>> This has:
>>
>> | Assisted-by: LLM [design, codegen, tests]
>>
>> It tells us a bit more about *how* the LLM was used, without introducing the
>> advertisement or pinning exact models.
>>
>> This format should allow for multiple tool usage:
>>
>> | Assisted-by: LLM [triage, tests], coccinelle
>>
>> I don't suggest this is included in this version, but it *is* fairly
>> straightforward to add to AGENTS.md and tells reviewers just how exactly the
>> LLM was used.
> 
> I think perhaps this should be a follow-up (this stuff is so fraught that I am
> super-glad to see Christian's suggestion fly through and want to take gains
> iteratively on this :), but completely agree.
> 
> David suggested something like:
> 
> Assisted-by: LLM # < what it actually did in the patch >
> 
> So I think we're kinda aligned on that?

Once the patch from Christian is upstream I can follow up with some
changes. I was holding that back for now until there is agreement on
the LLM part.

-- 
Cheers,

David