Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add support for Assisted-by tag

[Sasha Levin]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 08:33:26AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On 2026-03-11 08:20, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > The Assisted-by tag was introduced in 
> > Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
> > for attributing AI tool contributions to kernel patches. However, 
> > checkpatch.pl
> > did not recognize this tag, causing two issues:
> []
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
> > @@ -3105,6 +3106,13 @@ sub process {
> > 				}
> > 			}
> >
> > +			# Assisted-by uses AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION format, not email
> > +			if ($sign_off =~ /^Assisted-by:/i) {
> > +				if ($email !~ /^\S+:\S+/) {
> > +					WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF",
> > +					     "Assisted-by: expects 'AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] 
> > [TOOL2]' format\n" . $herecurr);
> > +				}
>
> I believe you could use next instead of this odd indentation avoidance.

Let me figure it out. My perl-fu is... questionable.

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Thanks,
Sasha