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

Steven Rostedt
2025-07-30T17:25:14Z

On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:12:54 -0400
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:

> >>
> >> 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.
> >

Actually, I'm not sure I care for the above, because honestly, I wouldn't
know which to set my subsystem to. It would be a case by case basis.
Sometimes I'm fine with the automated tooling as I can tell that the one
using it knows what they are doing and use it as a tool.

But I have refused patches from people where it was obvious that they had
no idea of what they were doing and just submitted something because
"checkpatch" or "coccinelle" said so.

-- Steve