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McKenney" , Simon Glass , NeilBrown , Lorenzo Stoakes , "Theodore Ts'o" , Sasha Levin , Jonathan Corbet , Vlastimil Babka , workflows@vger.kernel.org, ksummit@lists.linux.dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 at 19:05, Dave Hansen wrote: > > On 1/13/26 02:36, Lee Jones wrote: > ... > >> +Even if your tool use is out of scope, you should still always consid= er > >> +if it would help reviewing your contribution if the reviewer knows > >> +about the tool that you used. > > > > Parsing ... okay, that took a few goes. How about: > > > > Even if disclosure of your tool isn't mandated, providing this contex= t > > often helps reviewers evaluate your contribution more effectively. > > Clear documentation of your workflow ensures a faster review with les= s > > contention. > I agree that the sentence is hard to parse. But, I want to explicitly > say "out of scope" to tie this in to the rest of the section. How about > this? > > Even if your tool use is out of scope, consider disclosing how > you used the tool. Clear documentation of your workflow often > helps reviewers do their jobs more efficiently. > > BTW, I do think we're well into diminishing returns territory. I'll roll > this into a v6 if there's a v6. But, if it's pulled in as-is, I think > the original can stay without causing too much harm. > > ...>> +Some examples: > >> + - Any tool-suggested fix such as ``checkpatch.pl --fix`` > >> + - Coccinelle scripts > >> + - A chatbot generated a new function in your patch to sort list entr= ies. > >> + - A .c file in the patch was originally generated by a coding > >> + assistant but cleaned up by hand. > >> + - The changelog was generated by handing the patch to a generative A= I > >> + tool and asking it to write the changelog. > >> + - The changelog was translated from another language. > > > > Nit: Suggest removing the sporadic use of full-stops (periods) across a= ll lists. > > > > Or add them everywhere - so long as it's consistent. > > The rule that I read is that when the bullets are full, complete > sentences, you should use periods. When they are just nouns or shards of > sentences, leave off the periods. Or for the latter: use commas for all but the last one, and finish with a period. Just my 0.02=E2=82=AC, from an old LaTeX user... P.S. Linus seems to disagree, as he consistently drops the carefully placed commas and periods when merging my pull requests... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert --=20 Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k= .org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. Bu= t when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like t= hat. -- Linus Torvalds