We've had this requirement in place in the Documentation for several months, but it's becoming clear that the signal to noise ratio from this is quite low.
1/ It's not universally followed. While many people do try to attribute the LLMs in good faith, not everyone does for various reasons. 2/ It basically serves as free advertising for proprietary LLM companies. 3/ It's not clear why we want to collect this info in the first place. Given that the data this provides is flawed at best and is being collected for a purpose that isn't clear, let's just kill the requirement for these tags from the kernel at large. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]> --- Christian had proposed watering down the LLM attribution, but I think it's not productive to try and track this until we have a clearer sense of what we want to do with this information and how to make it more reliable. --- Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst | 22 ---------------------- Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 10 ---------- 2 files changed, 32 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst index 899f4459c52d..c4cc0917fc92 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst @@ -35,25 +35,3 @@ is responsible for: * Ensuring compliance with licensing requirements * Adding their own Signed-off-by tag to certify the DCO * Taking full responsibility for the contribution - -Attribution -=========== - -When AI tools contribute to kernel development, proper attribution -helps track the evolving role of AI in the development process. -Contributions should include an Assisted-by tag in the following format:: - - Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] [TOOL2] - -Where: - -* ``AGENT_NAME`` is the name of the AI tool or framework -* ``MODEL_VERSION`` is the specific model version used -* ``[TOOL1] [TOOL2]`` are optional specialized analysis tools used - (e.g., coccinelle, sparse, smatch, clang-tidy) - -Basic development tools (git, gcc, make, editors) should not be listed. - -Example:: - - Assisted-by: Claude:claude-3-opus coccinelle sparse diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst index cc6a1f73d7f2..b74c38aa9770 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -634,16 +634,6 @@ bugzilla.kernel.org is a public place in this sense, but email addresses used there are private; so do not expose them in tags, unless the person used them in earlier contributions. -Using Assisted-by: ------------------- - -If you used any sort of advanced coding tool in the creation of your patch, -you need to acknowledge that use by adding an Assisted-by tag. Failure to -do so may impede the acceptance of your work. Please see -Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst for details regarding the -acknowledgment of coding assistants. - - .. _the_canonical_patch_format: The canonical patch format --- base-commit: 665159e246749578d4e4bfe106ee3b74edcdab18 change-id: 20260702-aidoc-7e18f221d63a Best regards, -- Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
