linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add agent coding assistant configuration to Linux kernel

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Message-ID: <20250730132527.69617dbb@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:25:27 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
 corbet@....net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, workflows@...r.kernel.org,
 josh@...htriplett.org, kees@...nel.org, konstantin@...uxfoundation.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds
 <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, "Dr. David Alan Gilbert"
 <linux@...blig.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add agent coding assistant configuration to Linux
 kernel

On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:12:54 -0400
Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> wrote:

> >>
> >> Some sort of a "traffic light" system:
> >>
> >>  1. Green: the subsystem is happy to receive patches from any source.
> >>
> >>  2. Yellow: "If you're unfamiliar with the subsystem and using any
> >>  tooling to generate your patches, please have a reviewed-by from a
> >>  trusted developer before sending your patch".
> >>
> >>  3. No tool-generated patches without prior maintainer approval.  
> >

Actually, I'm not sure I care for the above, because honestly, I wouldn't
know which to set my subsystem to. It would be a case by case basis.
Sometimes I'm fine with the automated tooling as I can tell that the one
using it knows what they are doing and use it as a tool.

But I have refused patches from people where it was obvious that they had
no idea of what they were doing and just submitted something because
"checkpatch" or "coccinelle" said so.

-- Steve