From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"workflows@vger.kernel.org" <workflows@vger.kernel.org>,
"ksummit@lists.linux.dev" <ksummit@lists.linux.dev>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:46:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251110124615.4c8203fd@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251110172507.GA21641@pendragon.ideasonboard.com>
On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:25:07 +0200
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> > > > + - Purely mechanical transformations like variable renaming
>
> Mechanical transformations are often performed with Coccinelle. Given
> how you mention that tool below, I wouldn't frame it as out of scope
> here.
Agreed. Tooling that performs "mechanical transformations like variable
renaming" is definitely in scope of this document. The number of times I've
seen this "simple" activity make mistakes. It most definitely should be
disclosed if a tool helped in this regard.
Anyway,
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-10 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20251105231514.3167738-1-dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
2025-11-10 7:43 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-10 8:58 ` Christian Brauner
2025-11-10 16:08 ` Dave Hansen
2025-11-10 17:25 ` Laurent Pinchart
2025-11-10 17:41 ` Dave Hansen
2025-11-10 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2025-11-10 17:56 ` Luck, Tony
2025-11-10 18:39 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-10 19:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2025-11-10 19:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-11-10 19:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2025-11-10 19:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-11-10 20:00 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2025-11-10 20:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-11-10 21:21 ` James Bottomley
2025-11-10 21:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-11-10 21:52 ` Luck, Tony
2025-11-10 22:07 ` James Bottomley
2025-11-10 23:16 ` Theodore Ts'o
2025-11-11 9:35 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-11-11 13:08 ` Theodore Ts'o
2025-11-10 17:46 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
[not found] ` <11eaf7fa-27d0-4a57-abf0-5f24c918966c@lucifer.local>
2025-11-10 11:15 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
[not found] ` <103ee61c-f958-440c-af73-1cf3600d10fd@intel.com>
2025-11-10 16:51 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
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