From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
corbet@lwn.net, skhan@linuxfoundation.org,
federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it, apw@canonical.com, joe@perches.com,
workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: remove Assisted-by references
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:18:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026101327-cupid-legal-6cf6@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea3ff257-70e2-43e4-aba7-140e84994872@infradead.org>
On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 10:56:59PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
>
> On 10/12/26 9:24 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 09, 2026 at 04:31:37AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >> The Maintainers Summit reached consensus to deprecate the Assisted-by
> >> tag. Remove the documentation requiring it.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> >
> > Yup, it has become as redundant as specifying what editor I use. ;)
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
>
> and for those of us who don't know details about the discussion,
> how is it redundant?
lwn.net now has the "meeting notes" where this was discussed:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/
> Do you assume that everyone now uses it (LLM), just as everyone
> uses an editor?
>
> I still agree with what GregKH said on July 2, 2026, in
> https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/2026070224-unholy-commode-cf45@gregkh/
As I stated elsewhere in this thread, I've now changed my mind, it
didn't work out at all and maintainers are really annoyed by it so let's
just drop it and focus on the content of the patch itself (and push back
on _ANYTHING_ you feel is wrong).
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-13 6:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-09 8:31 [PATCH] docs: remove Assisted-by references Sasha Levin
2026-10-09 9:38 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-10-09 10:09 ` Sasha Levin
2026-10-09 10:05 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-10-09 10:24 ` Greg KH
2026-10-09 15:20 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-10-11 1:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-10-12 15:42 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-10-13 11:19 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-10-13 12:38 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-10-13 12:31 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-10-13 4:24 ` Kees Cook
2026-10-13 5:56 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-10-13 6:18 ` Greg KH [this message]
2026-10-13 8:25 ` Kees Cook
2026-10-13 12:28 ` [PATCH] docs: remove Assisted-by reference Jori Koolstra
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