The Maintainers Summit reached consensus to deprecate the Assisted-by
tag. Remove the documentation requiring it.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst | 21 +------------------
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 10 ---------
.../it_IT/process/submitting-patches.rst | 10 ---------
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 ----------
4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 51 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
index 051f0d819f68e..509dbf23a099b 100644
a/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
@@ -40,24 +40,6 @@ is responsible for:
- Adding their own Signed-off-by tag to certify the DCO
- Taking full responsibility for the contribution
-Attribution
-===========
-When AI tools contribute to kernel development, proper attribution
-helps track the evolving role of AI in the development process.
-Contributions should include an Assisted-by tag in the following format::
- Assisted-by: LLM [TOOL1] [TOOL2]
-* [TOOL1] [TOOL2] are optional specialized analysis tools used
- (e.g., coccinelle, sparse, smatch, clang-tidy)
-Basic development tools (git, gcc, make, editors) should not be listed.
-Example::
- Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle sparse
Procedure for finding and fixing bugs
@@ -82,8 +64,7 @@ these steps:
another one. The fix must not add build warnings and must pass the
checkpatch.pl checks (see submitting-patches.rst).
6. Commit the working fix with a detailed message describing the problem, the
- solution and a Fixes tag. Do not add a Signed-off-by tag, and add an
- Assisted-by tag, as described above.
- solution and a Fixes tag. Do not add a Signed-off-by tag.
- Identify the maintainers and lists using scripts/get_maintainer.pl.
Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst shows how to do that.
- Indicate what could not be done. If the fix could not be built or tested, or
diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index 7ae79452e1b46..5f4e0156cca78 100644
a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -632,16 +632,6 @@ bugzilla.kernel.org is a public place in this sense, but email addresses
used there are private; so do not expose them in tags, unless the person
used them in earlier contributions.
-Using Assisted-by:
-If you used any sort of advanced coding tool in the creation of your patch,
-you need to acknowledge that use by adding an Assisted-by tag. Failure to
-do so may impede the acceptance of your work. Please see
-Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst for details regarding the
-acknowledgment of coding assistants.
.. _the_canonical_patch_format:
The canonical patch format
diff --git a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/submitting-patches.rst
index a742610cb0709..d0e0d6c9ecc2e 100644