Re: [PATCH v1 0/8] TDX: Stop auto-generating the global metadata code

From: Chao Gao

Date: Wed Aug 05 2026 - 08:33:35 EST


On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 04:38:44PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>On 8/4/26 04:29, Chao Gao wrote:
>> This is a long-overdue cleanup of the TDX global metadata, based on work
>> from Dave [1].
>
>I wouldn't say "from Dave". At best, I'd say "AI slop in response to
>Dave's prompt" or "work vibe coded by Dave".
>
>But seriously, all I wanted to do was show my fellow humans that it
>wasn't an insurmountable task.

Ok. Given this, I'll take authorship of the whole series and credit you in
the cover letter, rather than keeping you as the author on patches 1-6. Let
me know if this doesn't work.

>
>> Patches 1-6 keep Dave's authorship -- I only reworded the
>> commit messages and comments, with no significant changes to the code.
>> Note that they are missing Dave's Signed-off-by.
>
>Yes, and that was intentional.