On 2026-10-13 08:15:01 -0400, Sasha Levin <[email protected]> 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) <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> > ---
Acked-by: Weijie Yuan <[email protected]> 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/[email protected]/ > > 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.
