linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [v2] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content

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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 17:58:23 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] Documentation: Provide guidelines for
 tool-generated content

On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 03:15:14PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> +Out of Scope
> +============
> +
> +These guidelines do not apply to tools that make trivial tweaks to
> +preexisting content. Nor do they pertain to AI tooling that helps with
> +menial tasks. Some examples:
> +
> + - Spelling and grammar fix ups, like rephrasing to imperative voice
> + - Typing aids like identifier completion, common boilerplate or
> +   trivial pattern completion
> + - Purely mechanical transformations like variable renaming
> + - Reformatting, like running Lindent, ``clang-format`` or
> +   ``rust-fmt``

Manually fixing checkpatch warnings is also out-of-scope?

Confused... 

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