From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (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 5988331BCAE; Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:39:39 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1762799979; cv=none; b=dDh+B2ss5ai8I4qL5OH2YfWOPQidXMPowQgrOK4r3LLpKeCFq33VFxZpAj8y/04qOHosoTEpil+wIiOVuln/s5/A8SZtO4fP/IY63d1WktUmRlTD6NlzamVXIatiYuyTZksJYxo6fA7ItyUIMTxGjgKSbc3Pf634zsPFOqYcO+k= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1762799979; c=relaxed/simple; bh=IvGt/WWiUvQoOBi0OItWTxUXBAZF0Qzn0yz7/eSCvjo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=Hbn83O5updrh03U2yRK3xomPy3unJ/ZrfDL/Ze+HiWgiRum6qfhcbZRHPpy4kP2xqBl3quH4QPpQUXfd9c8lAT7FNZVOZy/KwG4WnnfL10tSOlcbhASQyU/h3uTuxMy7ilrv7Q4N1CVYXYDBdlika6LKHpERVDQBT0azV8E+2DA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=Q9KomAO8; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="Q9KomAO8" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 732E5C116B1; Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:39:34 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1762799978; bh=IvGt/WWiUvQoOBi0OItWTxUXBAZF0Qzn0yz7/eSCvjo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=Q9KomAO8CwRBGHlqqIJTdETtAwI10GvE66jMHKwRB/OjZbxLKLz+Zun5NhfDZiagG OraXZpV32gOXO51qm5fvIEmxWB58T5wB2JejYle7ZvSTl/Mys2r/VE0NxdfBPz79rg QKlF32Tk5yJJ04+nxTEWkhJoOGBQN7HZ+0zqB3+WdRdTxJAJ8TNZF58NM2oUTXUoV/ M/2rRB0YX36YyART5lsqxRqB/lIq7EPBB86bO6gouUuDPW+nIWye2zaYt7/l+xC94t 2B07uJ7dMT4prpzgvhAi/I726ZVrlcnFish+XAYf9yVblkIOOYdZHCBWd01TlirXWJ M+8ih6iu/lwvA== Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:39:30 +0200 From: Mike Rapoport To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Laurent Pinchart , Christian Brauner , 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content Message-ID: 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> 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 09:44:00AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 at 09:25, Laurent Pinchart > wrote: > > > > Mechanical transformations are often performed with Coccinelle. Given > > how you mention that tool below, I wouldn't frame it as out of scope > > here. > > Honestly, I think the documented rule should not aim to treat AI as > anything special at all, and literally just talk about tooling. > > I think we should treat any AI generated patches similarly: people > should mention the tool it was done with, and the script (ok, the > "scripts" are called "prompts", because AI is so "special") used. > > Sure, AI ends up making the result potentially much more subtle, but I > don't think the *issue* is new, and I don't think it should need to be > treated as such. The novelty here is that AI does not only transform the code, it can generate it from scratch en masse. > Linus > -- Sincerely yours, Mike.