From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0011.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.11]) (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 2044D2E3AF2; Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:46:19 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.11 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1762796782; cv=none; b=leN4e/PWjVMuSUj0gyaEAdytgk6hhSGjpuKCykiJcH6GZgicn/eZXJLH6e66/Ju8o8PGsgS/sd/UTPBc8S0afD2srzMLHe3Tt+y4xOdKUPF/6meI6lb9UhFpjQgrtHRcRydrTWyojpPRLN5aIIYntHkfore2V2HQ0/GEmbsAd5A= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1762796782; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Jbi5RMwGRs086xz9D5Qz27q/1MNFZKpeCIgXY2/x+/A=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=NFN/AvuHht/8hbwebICylgQwhSoSeXR/9Y3My2ar5iau5QrNLLgmGegoIY5c7cj9v/kyh6RBLMBbSqf7nYLVBjzAz6fKqJ6QCiP61gwHTq0esxEAyEkuDncVuHckAd4OnMsaqqxLX//iW3ii+Y385wWvO3rRzqWu+tHY+sk0xJw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=goodmis.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=goodmis.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.11 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=goodmis.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=goodmis.org Received: from omf08.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCE7139D23; Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:46:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: rostedt@goodmis.org) by omf08.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 9601C20028; Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:46:08 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:46:15 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: Laurent Pinchart Cc: Christian Brauner , Dave Hansen , Vlastimil Babka , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "workflows@vger.kernel.org" , "ksummit@lists.linux.dev" , Dan Williams , Theodore Ts'o , Sasha Levin , Jonathan Corbet , Kees Cook , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Miguel Ojeda , Shuah Khan Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content Message-ID: <20251110124615.4c8203fd@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20251110172507.GA21641@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.20.0git84 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Stat-Signature: mssetsafi7xn69xkio4ibd1o6p5ofwk4 X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout03 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 9601C20028 X-Session-Marker: 726F737465647440676F6F646D69732E6F7267 X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX1/StFnPhWxwXbXgclZLA5CF+NltNO4Sn8A= X-HE-Tag: 1762796768-843566 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX19QJcYoOXL0nYw0ecym/L6D6Rlj+IHuCZEqSoWXXa75v7GcVJI5eTBE4nIx0QssuTGx7j5Vn4Tsp6EYT2MP08D4LmUe959fnX93vcoA8EqV9+K7hR4tK1DhRpoDv6TxLqfIfvGiN9K0XwI3VxqtDOkQzT17pXgOtXqOTgxFWzdckGvV2cwtPZ2vqXnBPjkHPVhNmMeRv6z2CYwo2CsnP4eQ9v94mhPxInhUqaB0QZKSsbxov//E5Yfq0w6Uc4B2LkYfW3vAroxMweVTCvBdDAu1WvFAlATPixb7tO0aCfNIxpMLjO05Pjf/SXyefP4rQM9itXDfKI7uo5X4f1sdWEwcfxZc6nVK2LN5BLwXc1lr1i6LUyLqQitD9TIzMNkU5EY5jZyG951ydDZX7uLi1Ote+v6UbERGnvjv4mMOQqEofViCdWWuEO9R On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:25:07 +0200 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. 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 -- Steve