From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from blackbird.sr71.net (blackbird.sr71.net [198.145.64.142]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 78D792DE1E6 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:48:03 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.145.64.142 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1762796884; cv=none; b=dsgoewsKc8og7P3PSWXSI+Tmnsxqq/qyUaGoC+sy15/eFEwosnu8Vtup2eFZodXvVtPxvmnrwkhvZZep/ICYUAe2C2ozR3y85Eu6MCH0/xHZIeebfO3b5p6VWXzn2GrmktIGSUFMcOWFZ7CxJmYkvP+wp2UczlbbnA/S/CjrNaE= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1762796884; c=relaxed/simple; bh=4iJ0iHDZd+yoC6UHBTaQrxmaV6kxPQ/saCltDKoD8bM=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=We/7UK97CSqQMWHN70UzmGFyLaLUCL10LaH1rmDfTbYqkbIbJCtuIWRuThTsoO27KIf71lnQMdyR01145bovIc4QHFGebS4Sccvxo5wUlFdueVTd1bWoaCKsBozZJ9aysuQZSh8RBlG+D0tk80pg8Fx4MSP+41pxSP2J5dhPmZk= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=sr71.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=sr71.net; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.145.64.142 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=sr71.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=sr71.net Received: from [0.0.0.0] (unknown [134.134.139.75]) (Authenticated sender: dave) by blackbird.sr71.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E283D2019E; Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:41:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:41:54 -0800 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content To: Laurent Pinchart , Christian Brauner Cc: Dave Hansen , Vlastimil Babka , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "workflows@vger.kernel.org" , "ksummit@lists.linux.dev" , Steven Rostedt , Dan Williams , Theodore Ts'o , Sasha Levin , Jonathan Corbet , Kees Cook , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Miguel Ojeda , Shuah Khan References: <20251105231514.3167738-1-dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> <653b4187-ec4f-4f5d-ae76-d37f46070cb4@suse.cz> <20251110-weiht-etablieren-39e7b63ef76d@brauner> <20251110172507.GA21641@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> From: Dave Hansen Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <20251110172507.GA21641@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11/10/25 09:25, Laurent Pinchart 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. The key here isn't which tool is used, it's how it's used. If you go use Coccinelle for pure variable renaming, you don't need to mention it. Same as if you use perl or vim to do a s/foo/bar/. That said, if you choose to attach your trivial variable renaming Coccinelle script, everyone will be better off for it.