From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:13:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cxx5l900.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026070224-unholy-commode-cf45@gregkh>
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> 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.
FWIW, in my experience, simple ignorance of the rules is one of the
biggest reasons why so many people fail to follow them. When I've asked
docs contributors about the source of their work, they tend to come
clean, apologize, and add the tags going forward.
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-02 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-02 14:32 [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution Jeff Layton
2026-07-02 14:53 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-07-02 14:58 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-02 15:02 ` Jeff Layton
2026-07-02 15:07 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-02 14:57 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-02 15:28 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-07-02 15:36 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-02 15:44 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-07-02 15:07 ` Greg KH
2026-07-02 15:13 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2026-07-02 15:20 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-02 18:46 ` Andreas Dilger
2026-07-03 2:57 ` Theodore Tso
2026-07-03 11:50 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-07-03 16:12 ` Andreas Dilger
2026-07-02 15:15 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-02 15:33 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-07-02 15:37 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-02 15:36 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-07-02 15:57 ` Jeff Layton
2026-07-02 16:13 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-07-02 16:19 ` Greg KH
2026-07-02 16:32 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-07-03 6:37 ` Greg KH
2026-07-03 7:23 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-03 7:30 ` Greg KH
2026-07-03 7:33 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-03 11:42 ` Theodore Tso
2026-07-03 11:53 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-07-03 12:04 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-07-02 16:48 ` Jeff Layton
2026-07-02 16:50 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-02 21:17 ` Boris Burkov
2026-07-02 23:17 ` SJ Park
2026-07-03 7:05 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-03 13:12 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-03 16:32 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-07-03 18:22 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-03 18:26 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-02 23:05 ` SJ Park
2026-07-02 16:11 ` Chuck Lever
2026-07-02 16:14 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
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