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

On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:35:28 -0800
Dave Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:

> In the last few years, the capabilities of coding tools have exploded.
> As those capabilities have expanded, contributors and maintainers have
> more and more questions about how and when to apply those
> capabilities.
> 
> Add new Documentation to guide contributors on how to best use kernel
> development tools, new and old.
> 
> Note, though, there are fundamentally no new or unique rules in this
> new document. It clarifies expectations that the kernel community has
> had for many years. For example, researchers are already asked to
> disclose the tools they use to find issues in
> Documentation/process/researcher-guidelines.rst. This new document
> just reiterates existing best practices for development tooling.
> 
> In short: Please show your work and make sure your contribution is
> easy to review.

Thanks Dave for pushing this through!

Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

-- Steve

> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
> Cc: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]