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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) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Pereira <danielmaraboo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20261013121501.3738437-1-sashal@kernel.org>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It has been a not-too-busy cycle for docs; here's the highlights:
- A (hopefully) consensus change to our LLM-attribution requirements,
removing the specific model name from the Assisted-by tag
- A couple of new realtime documents
- Various docs-build-system fixes
- Ongoing work with the Chinese, Portuguese, and Japanese
translations
...and lots of typo fixes, grammar tweaks, etc"
* tag 'docs-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (85 commits)
Doc: admin-guide: pm: Remove unnecessary backticks and fix a spell
Documentation: Extend the real-time hardware bits with some firmware bits
docs: pt_BR: Reorganize process/index.rst to follow english structure
docs: conf.py: fix the 'utf-8' typo
doc tools: fix 'path' typos
Documentation: real-time: Add kernel configuration guide
docs: python: abi_regex: convert adjacent index placeholders
docs: python: abi_regex: catch the right exception for a bad regex
docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: include localversion in kernel version string
Documentation: html: adjust sidebar section titles styling
Documentation: html: show sections in the sidebar
checkpatch.pl: adapt to new Assisted-by: format
MAINTAINERS: update Traditional Chinese documentation maintainers
docs: pt_BR: process: Translate CVE documentation
docs: pt_BR: translate the management-style.rst to Brazilian Portuguese
docs: xforms_lists: support DEFINE_IDTENTRY_IRQ()
coding-assistants: simplify attribution
docs: translations: pt_BR: translate email-clients.rst
docs: pt_BR: process: Translate the security-bugs.rst
doc:it_IT: align doc-guide translation
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Due to the increasing capabilities of available AI models, it's becoming
common to see them used to find bugs anywhere. Unfortunately the quality
of reports (especially when they're believed to be security relevant) is
still lacking a lot.
Let's add a section dedicated to bug finding, explaining the few
mandatory steps (noting commit ID, writing the fix from the session that
found the bug, building and testing, etc). This was tested both against
Qwen3.6-27B-Architect-Polaris2-Fable-B-F451 running under Hermes, and
Opus-5, and both followed the instructions to the letter, verifying
their results and checking threat-model.rst to decline the vulnerability
aspect. At least in the current form it's expected to improve the
situation a little bit.
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260802203540.3453-5-w@1wt.eu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The requirement to identify specific models used in the Assisted-by tag
provides free advertising to proprietary software companies while adding
little or no useful information. Change the requirement to simply:
Assisted-by: LLM
to capture the fact that an LLM was used without tracking which one.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (arm) <david@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <20260701-work-coding-assistants-v1-1-a20a94d1d606@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Both of these guidelines are complimentary to one another - one specifying
guidelines on AI coding assistants, and the other specifying those for
tool-generated content.
Since they are complimentary to one another, provide a link to each in the
other.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260702164901.121128-1-ljs@kernel.org>
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Add guidance for AI assistants and developers using AI tools for kernel
contributions, per the consensus reached at the 2025 Maintainers Summit.
Create Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst with detailed guidance
on licensing, Signed-off-by requirements, and attribution format. The
README points AI tools to this documentation.
This will allow coding assistants to easily parse these instructions and
comply with guidelines set by the community.
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1049830/
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251223122110.2496946-1-sashal@kernel.org>
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