From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta1.migadu.com (out-221.mta1.migadu.com [95.215.58.221]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 368213290C9 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:12:03 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=95.215.58.221 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1791947527; cv=none; b=qL1Wkq04IZjK96PrnXapq2cOhqukejA5FqU36V2NpT4mCSpejmN9q6itp/lWabwE6+yHWMS+sVLzZl3gAEewLsltJdQp8tBheKvEEDcZqijDt2wD249S44Ef/CTTOa2Ipc7BaJyRVnkuPyFV0a7jXeGPq/BqIpGHWFuYcYit02I= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1791947527; c=relaxed/simple; bh=loYkF41Uy03n+0MK5bjqWUlD6ePbTjgxrtXYT7g2Odw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=qwElnR/tV77RBNUudBRGqK/eJNBjjYuPtZJJFFmpdezNBllF48lFcbK7LotqlcENoB102t0OHsSlFj32Ve4dvflZShu1I70FmfHrvB6OPML8Z5TmKBH1eroRmm9KkYN8ONo5lhM2COVbFdKIpsDqKTD6iICjjR7d23znvzcY1zo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=wyuan.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=wyuan.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=wyuan.org header.i=@wyuan.org header.b=k5xoXJYE; arc=none smtp.client-ip=95.215.58.221 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=wyuan.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=wyuan.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=wyuan.org header.i=@wyuan.org header.b="k5xoXJYE" X-Envelope-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha256; bh=loYkF41Uy03n+0MK5bjqWUlD6ePbTjgxrtXYT7g2Odw=; c=simple/simple; d=wyuan.org; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=key1; t=1791947522; v=1; x=1792552322; b=k5xoXJYEZ7JyB7Z7DSAYcPrOLxeFaBO4NY0znrt4IwkcstGUFYg5BUyRVcfzks/0DuyRyx45 5LI7geSYIG+X+Q563rfogZaFHDOUHNbj2yeuIWPPIvcyxSkIsyMNSDKMrVw1H3s0Dy2iS8bSu8Q c8IoCNe5ka8TReZbWE87Vip9f61pzj3U59N0eV7+yBIM27Lliz/94MatvSvPl00kCx6ERvnJbjN LNh8tuHdwVihXmQE+MzatDkVFxvx3s8K7S1vg71P1wVffGmxPoQEkl5YdKs6+zwiWrWL9sDNUsP TQgFfelmOHYOm8hF5P+ZBIdJ3/AJ1mrFCUREsFdtv9u2A== X-Envelope-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Received: by smtp.migadu.com with ESMTPS id fa9852e4d2c6a547; Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:12:01 +0000 X-Mizu-Trace-ID: fa9852e4d2c6a547 X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:11:56 +0800 From: Weijie Yuan To: Sasha Levin Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Randy Dunlap , Federico Vaga , Daniel Pereira , Chen-Yu Yeh , Dongliang Mu , Andy Whitcroft , Joe Perches , Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Laurent Pinchart , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Steven Rostedt , Lorenzo Stoakes , Kees Cook , Jori Koolstra , Jeff Layton , Christian Brauner , David Hildenbrand , Vlastimil Babka , Jakub Kicinski , Christoph Hellwig , Mark Brown , Jens Axboe , Brian Foster , Carlos Maiolino , David Disseldorp , Jani Nikula , Justin Stitt , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: remove Assisted-by references Message-ID: References: <20261013121501.3738437-1-sashal@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20261013121501.3738437-1-sashal@kernel.org> On 2026-10-13 08:15:01 -0400, 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) > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook > Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin > --- Acked-by: Weijie Yuan Thanks! > Changes in v2: > - Expand the changelog with the background and the Maintainers Summit > discussion (Laurent, Krzysztof, Greg, Lorenzo). > - Rebase on docs-next and also remove the Assisted-by sections from the > pt_BR and zh_TW translations there. > - Collect tags. > > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261009083137.3-1-sashal@kernel.org/ > > Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst | 21 +------------------ > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 10 --------- > .../it_IT/process/submitting-patches.rst | 10 --------- > .../pt_BR/process/coding-assistants.rst | 20 ------------------ > .../pt_BR/process/submitting-patches.rst | 10 --------- > .../zh_TW/process/submitting-patches.rst | 7 ------- > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 ---------- > 7 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 88 deletions(-) [...] > diff --git a/Documentation/translations/zh_TW/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/translations/zh_TW/process/submitting-patches.rst > index b780f1539b46b..4a7c046b23894 100644 > --- a/Documentation/translations/zh_TW/process/submitting-patches.rst > +++ b/Documentation/translations/zh_TW/process/submitting-patches.rst > @@ -503,13 +503,6 @@ Fixes: 指示補丁修復了之前提交中的一個缺陷。它可以便於確 > 的。注意，就此而言bugzilla.kernel.org是公開場所，但其中使用的電子郵件地址 > 是私密的；因此不要在標籤中暴露它們，除非該人在先前的貢獻中使用過。 > > -使用Assisted-by: > ----------------- > - > -如果您在建立補丁的過程中使用了任何進階編碼工具，您需要透過添加Assisted-by > -標籤來聲明這一使用。不這樣做可能會妨礙您的工作被接受。關於聲明編碼助手的 > -細節，請參見 Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst 。 > - > .. _tw_the_canonical_patch_format: > > 標準補丁格式 Thanks for doing this.