Re: [RFC PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: (AI?) Tool disclosure tag

Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2025-07-25T00:55:38Z

* Kees Cook (kees@kernel.org) wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 07:45:56PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > My thought is to treat AI as another developer. If a developer helps you
> > like the AI is helping you, would you give that developer credit for that
> > work? If so, then you should also give credit to the tooling that's helping
> > you.
> >
> > I suggested adding a new tag to note any tool that has done non-trivial
> > work to produce the patch where you give it credit if it has helped you as
> > much as another developer that you would give credit to.
>
> We've got tags to choose from already in that case:
>
> Suggested-by: LLM

For me, 'Suggested-by:' seems fine for where an LLM has
responded to a 'suggest improvements to this function'.

> or
>
> Co-developed-by: LLM <not@human.with.legal.standing>
> Signed-off-by: LLM <not@human.with.legal.standing>
>
> The latter seems ... not good, as it implies DCO SoB from a thing that
> can't and hasn't acknowledged the DCO.

Yeh, the Co-developed-by: isn't terrible, but in both that and the
Suggested-by: is there a standard for how you would refer to the tool?
IMHO it should not have an email address there otherwise it'll confuse tools
into cc'ing them.

Dave

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