Re: [PATCH] [v3] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content

[Julia Lawall]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2026, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 08:17:09AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > +you are expected to understand and to be able to defend everything
> > > you
> > > +submit. If you are unable to do so, maintainers may choose to reject
> > > your
> > > +series outright.
> >
> > And I thing the addition would apply to any tool used to generate a
> > patch set whether AI or not.
>
> Exactly. I saw my share of "fix checkpatch warning" slop. This is no
> different.

I guess that most maintainers can easily recognize a patch that was
motivated by checkpatch, Coccinelle, smatch etc.  Then the review can be
informed by previous experience with the tool.  Will the same be the case
for AI?  Or does it not matter?

julia