Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Other LLM-related topics - tags, newcomers, etc

On Fri, 2026-07-17 at 21:27 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 02:12:31PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Fri, 2026-07-17 at 11:53 -0400, Liam R. Howlett wrote:
> > But the point is that whatever happens (even if nothing does) we'd
> > have
> > tags in the code base to identify most of the affected code.
>=20
> The Signed-off-by rules are simple to enforce

They're not really enforced at all.  It's the legal equivalent of a
representation, it just means I read the DCO and I represent I conform
to what it says.  Externally we have no verification mechanism that the
person signing off actually did this ... although if they're regular
contributors the trust factor is higher, and if they get caught faking
signoffs then the trust factor goes down.

>  but it's impossible to know when a patch is written by AI.=C2=A0 It's
> definitely a small minority of patches which are tagged and not "most
> of the affected code".

That's the point about it being a representation ... we need the
committer to be honest about it.  Although, at least in conference
submissions, we have had some success at employing AI to detect AI
usage.

Regards,

James