linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [v3] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content

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Message-ID: <aWVFLFdrs410YxU6@stanley.mountain>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:02:04 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
	Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, NeilBrown <neilb@...mail.net>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
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	workflows@...r.kernel.org, ksummit@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v3] Documentation: Provide guidelines for
 tool-generated content

On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 11:02:19AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sat, 2026-01-10 at 15:52 +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 09:25:36AM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > > I just don't think the word "slop" should be used, because while it
> > > may be very clear to you, and may be clearly defined in some
> > > communities, me, I'm just guessing what you mean by it.
> > 
> > https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-of-the-year
> 
> Just because it's the word of the year this year doesn't mean people
> will remember what it means even after a few years.  "Rawdog" was the
> OED word of the year in 2024 ... that's losing its resonance and who of
> the under 30 crowd knows what the 2000 word of the year "chad" means? 
> The point of the formulation I proposed (without mentioning slop) was
> to be generic and retain its meaning over time.

Slop means you produced the patches in such quantity that you don't have
time to review the output before sending it.  This isn't a totally new
thing, people have used clang-format to reformat a whole driver and it's
clear they didn't look at the output.

Even for bug reports, the truth is that no one reads mass bug reports.
I occasionally send mass bug reports if I create a new warning.  No one
ever reads them.

regards,
dan carpenter