From: Christian Couder Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:30:21 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] SubmittingPatches: add section about AI Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM Elijah Newren wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM brian m. carlson > wrote: > > We could say something like this: > > > > Please do not sign off your work if you’re using an LLM to contribute > > unless you have included copyright and license information for all the > > code used in that LLM. > > Would this mean that you wanted to ban contributions like d12166d3c8bb > (Merge branch 'en/docfixes', 2023-10-23), available on the list over > at https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1595.git.1696747527.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/ > ? We don't need to go theoretical, I've already contributed such a > patch series before -- 2 years ago -- and it was merged. Granted, > that was entirely documentation, and I called out the usage of AI in > the cover letter, and I manually checked every change (discarding many > of them) and split it into commits on my own, could easily explain any > change and why it was good, etc. And I was upfront about all of it. This is a good example why we don't want to ban any use of generated AI. Thanks. > If any use of AI is bad, do we need to revert that series?