On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 09:13:51AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Greg KH <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 10:32:48AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Then let's move to get people to follow it. > > FWIW, in my experience, simple ignorance of the rules is one of the > biggest reasons why so many people fail to follow them. When I've asked > docs contributors about the source of their work, they tend to come > clean, apologize, and add the tags going forward.
I also feel that repeatedly establishing boundaries like this (in as civil and reasonable way as possible) can help establish the 'done thing'. We will probably still experience a great deal of unattributed patches, and I think over time we'll have to figure out a way to deal with that, but there's certainly a cohort who can be reached, and it's beneficial to do so. It also makes it easier to enforce with those who don't play nice - 'here are the rules, look over here, and look at these patches' etc. With no rules at all it becomes far harder to enforce anything. > > jon Thanks, Lorenzo
