Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jul 2, 2026, at 09:13, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 10:32:48AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>> We've had this requirement in place in the Documentation for several
>>> months, but it's becoming clear that the signal to noise ratio from this
>>> is quite low.
>>> 
>>> 1/ It's not universally followed. While many people do try to attribute
>>> the LLMs in good faith, not everyone does for various reasons.
>> 
>> Then let's move to get people to follow it.
> 
> FWIW, in my experience, simple ignorance of the rules is one of the
> biggest reasons why so many people fail to follow them.  When I've asked
> docs contributors about the source of their work, they tend to come
> clean, apologize, and add the tags going forward.

It would make sense IMHO to address the ignorance in the most expedient manner,
namely by telling the *LLM itself* to add this tag when it generates the commit
message and/or reviews the code.

This could be achieved by adding a statement in "AGENTS.md" in the root of the
source tree to this effect, or telling the agent to reference and follow rules
in Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst regarding the Assisted-by: tag.

Cheers, Andreas