Re: [PATCH] [v3] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 at 13:20, Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Thinking LLMs are 'just another tool' is to say effectively that the kernel
> is immune from this. Which seems to me a silly position.

No. Your position is the silly one.

There is *zero* point in talking about AI slop. That's just plain stupid.

Why? Because the AI slop people aren't going to document their patches
as such. That's such an obvious truism that I don't understand why
anybody even brings up AI slop.

So stop this idiocy.

The documentation is for good actors, and pretending anything else is
pointless posturing.

As I said in private elsewhere, I do *not* want any kernel development
documentation to be some AI statement. We have enough people on both
sides of the "sky is falling" and "it's going to revolutionize
software engineering", I don't want some kernel development docs to
take either stance.

It's why I strongly want this to be that "just a tool" statement.

And the AI slop issue is *NOT* going to be solved with documentation,
and anybody who thinks it is either just naive, or wants to "make a
statement".

Neither of which is a good reason for documentation.

             Linus