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

Kees Cook
2025-07-24T21:20:04Z

On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 09:12:30PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Kees Cook (kees@kernel.org) wrote:
> > [...]
> > do for Coccinelle or other scripts. It's a bit buried in the Researcher
> > Guidelines[1], but we have explicitly asked for details about tooling:
> >
> > When sending patches produced from research, the commit logs should
> > contain at least the following details, so that developers have
> > appropriate context for understanding the contribution.
> > ...
> > Specifically include details about any testing, static or dynamic
> > analysis programs, and any other tools or methods used to perform the
> > work.
> >
> > Maybe that needs to be repeated in SubmittingPatches?
>
> 'produced from research' is narrowing things down a bit too much I think
> when it's people using the tools as their normal way of working.

Right -- as currently written we have the explicit guideline for
"produced from research" and kind of an unwritten rule to detail any
complex tools involved for regular development (e.g. Coccinelle,
syzkaller, etc). We could generalize the existing statement and repeat
it in a better location?

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Kees Cook