Re: [PATCH net] docs: netdev: try to force agents to disclose info for fixes

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:47:58 +0200 Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 09:34:18AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Oct 2026 11:58:17 +0100 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:  
> > That's already in the existing text?
> >   
> > > Which is true for anyone, not limited to bots...
> > > 
> > > Do we really need "different" guidelines for humans and bots?  
> > 
> > Looks like at least a half of the commit messages today are
> > bot-written. With the existing guidance the bots don't add
> > the requested info by default (presumably since they don't
> > know the information). If this patch doesn't help we may
> > need to add our requirement to coding-agents guide.
> > They seem to be reading that one fairly reliably.  
> 
> Is there no way this can be tested without being merged upstream ?

Of course it was. But I can only "test" something trivial like asking
Claude to do X. I can't tell whether the random free-model-using
or completely hands off bot will pay attention.

> Tweaking documentation in semi-random ways in the hope that some of the
> changes will have an impact doesn't seem to be a good process,
> especially if it's to work around defect of tools.
> 
> And unless I missed something, I thought there was a general consensus
> that documentation should be written in a way that doesn't reference
> agents specifically, as the same behaviour is expected for all
> submissions regardless of how they're generated. Has that changed ?

We're talking about a patch to maintainers-netdev. Let me experiment,
please.