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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.2508041219130.22517@gjva.wvxbf.pm>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 12:20:12 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jiri Kosina <kosina@...il.com>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, 
    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, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:

> > This way we can extend MAINTAINERS to indicate which subsystems are
> > more open to research work (drivers/staging/ comes to mind) vs ones that
> > aren't.
> >
> > 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.
> 
> This sounds good, with a default on red. Which would enforce the opt-in
> part.

I strongly believe that at least a distinction between 'static tools' and 
'LLM-based tools' needs to be introduced here.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs