Re: [PATCH v2] docs: remove Assisted-by references

[Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>]

On 10/13/26 08:47, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 10/13/26 14:15, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> Commit 78d979db6cef ("docs: add AI Coding Assistants documentation") asked
>> contributors to add an Assisted-by tag to patches developed with help from an
>> LLM, and commit 816d9992d9ed ("coding-assistants: simplify attribution") later
>> reduced the tag to "Assisted-by: LLM".
>>
>> A proposal to drop the tag was turned down in July [1]. The main argument for
>> keeping it was that maintainers wanted a signal that a patch was LLM-assisted,
>> so that they could review it accordingly.
>>
>> The tag came up again at the 2026 Maintainers Summit [2]. Roughly 10% of the
>> 18,533 non-merge commits in 7.3 through -rc7 carry an Assisted-by tag, while
>> actual LLM use is far more widespread. Some contributors do not know about the
>> rule, others leave the tag off on purpose, and few maintainers ask about it. As
>> a result, the tag does not provide the signal it was kept for: its absence says
>> nothing about how a patch was made, and for developers who use these tools for
>> almost everything, its presence says little more. The choice was between
>> finding a way to enforce the requirement and dropping it, and there was a
>> strong, though not unanimous, consensus in the room to drop it. Greg
>> Kroah-Hartman, who argued for keeping the tag in July, supports removing it now
>> [3].
>>
>> Maintainers do still want to know how a patch was created, but the view at the
>> Summit was that this belongs in the cover letter, where it can describe how the
>> tools were used, rather than in the changelog.
>> Documentation/process/generated-content.rst already asks contributors to be
>> transparent about tool use and is not changed here. The rules on the DCO and on
>> the submitter's responsibility for the patch stay as they are.
>>
>> Remove the Assisted-by sections from coding-assistants.rst,
>> submitting-patches.rst, and the Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Traditional
>> Chinese translations, and drop the handling of the tag from checkpatch.
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/2026070224-unholy-commode-cf45@gregkh/
>> [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/
>> [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/2026101327-cupid-legal-6cf6@gregkh/
>>
>> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>> ---
> 
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
> 

Acked-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>