Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add agent coding assistant configuration to Linux kernel

Jiri Kosina
2025-08-04T10:20:15Z

On Wed, 30 Jul 2025, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:

> > This way we can extend MAINTAINERS to indicate which subsystems are
> > more open to research work (drivers/staging/ comes to mind) vs ones that
> > aren't.
> >
> > Some sort of a "traffic light" system:
> >
> > 1. Green: the subsystem is happy to receive patches from any source.
> >
> > 2. Yellow: "If you're unfamiliar with the subsystem and using any
> > tooling to generate your patches, please have a reviewed-by from a
> > trusted developer before sending your patch".
> >
> > 3. No tool-generated patches without prior maintainer approval.
>
> This sounds good, with a default on red. Which would enforce the opt-in
> part.

I strongly believe that at least a distinction between 'static tools' and
'LLM-based tools' needs to be introduced here.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs