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

Sasha Levin
2025-07-30T18:03:41Z

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 01:32:20PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:23:14 +0100
>Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> wrote:
>> You might suggest presuming a policy for maintainers is inappropriate, but
>> you are doing so wrt the LF policy on the assumption everybody is aware and
>> agrees with it.

No, this isn't about the LF policy. Let's completely ignore it for the
sake of this discussion.

All we require now is a signed DCO. The kernel's own policy, based on
Documentation/, is that we don't even need to disclose tool usage.

>> That same document says individual projects can _override_ this as they
>> please. So the introduction of this document can very well override that.
>>
>> We at the very least need this to be raised at the maintainers summit with
>> a very clear decision on opt-in vs. opt-out, with the decision being
>> communicated clearly.
>
>Agreed.

Right - if this is brought up during maintainer's summit and most folks
are in favor of "red" (or Linus just makes a desicion), we can go ahead
and adopt our own policy and set it to "red".

What I'm saying is that we can't just arbitrarily set it to "red" based
on this thread as this is a change from our current policy

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Thanks,
Sasha