Re: [RFC PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: (AI?) Tool disclosure tag

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 07:45:56PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> My thought is to treat AI as another developer. If a developer helps you
> like the AI is helping you, would you give that developer credit for that
> work? If so, then you should also give credit to the tooling that's helping
> you.
> 
> I suggested adding a new tag to note any tool that has done non-trivial
> work to produce the patch where you give it credit if it has helped you as
> much as another developer that you would give credit to.

We've got tags to choose from already in that case:

Suggested-by: LLM

or

Co-developed-by: LLM <not@xxxxxxxxxx.legal.standing>
Signed-off-by: LLM <not@xxxxxxxxxx.legal.standing>

The latter seems ... not good, as it implies DCO SoB from a thing that
can't and hasn't acknowledged the DCO.

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Kees Cook