Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution

[Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 09:13:51AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 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.

I also feel that repeatedly establishing boundaries like this (in as civil
and reasonable way as possible) can help establish the 'done thing'.

We will probably still experience a great deal of unattributed patches, and
I think over time we'll have to figure out a way to deal with that, but
there's certainly a cohort who can be reached, and it's beneficial to do
so.

It also makes it easier to enforce with those who don't play nice - 'here
are the rules, look over here, and look at these patches' etc.

With no rules at all it becomes far harder to enforce anything.

>
> jon

Thanks, Lorenzo