Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: adapt to new Assisted-by: format

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2026-08-04 at 12:13 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> There is a new format for the 'Assisted-by:' tag. Change checkpatch.pl
> to just check that it has a value rather than testing for a specific
> format.
> 
> Assisted-by: LLM

Did an LLM really help produce this?  Why?

> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx](mailto:jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx)>
> ---
> This is a companion patch to the one to change the format in
> Documentation/. See:
> 
>     [https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/87qzkuahlr.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/](https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/87qzkuahlr.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/)
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -3124,11 +3124,12 @@ sub process {
>  				}
>  			}
>  
> -			# Assisted-by uses AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION format, not email
> +			# Assisted-by uses a free-form value (e.g. "LLM"), not an
> +			# email address, so skip the email format checks below.
>  			if ($sign_off =~ /^Assisted-by:/i) {And
> -				if ($email !~ /^\S+:\S+/) {
> +				if ($email =~ /^\s*$/) {
>  					WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF",
> -					     "Assisted-by expects 'AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] [TOOL2]' format\n" . $herecurr);
> +					     "Assisted-by requires a value\n" . $herecurr);
>  				}
>  				next;
>  			}
> 
[]
> Best regards,

Sure, whatever.

cheers