Re: LLM disclosure (was: [PATCH v2] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation)

Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 15:35 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> NeilBrown <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 08 Nov 2025, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
> > > Full disclosure: I did use Claude code to generate the first
> > > approximation of this patch, but I had to fix a number of things that it
> > > missed.  I probably could have given it better prompts. In any case, I'm
> > > not sure how to properly attribute this (or if I even need to).
> > 
> > My understanding is that if you fully understand (and can defend) the
> > code change with all its motivations and implications as well as if you
> > had written it yourself, then you don't need to attribute whatever fancy
> > text editor or IDE (e.g.  Claude) that you used to help produce the
> > patch.
> 
> The proposed policy for such things is here, under review right now:
> 
>   https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
> 
> jon

Thanks Jon.

I'm guessing that this would fall under the "menial task"
classification, and therefore doesn't need attribution. This seems
applicable:

+ - Purely mechanical transformations like variable renaming

This is a little different, but it's a similar rote task.
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Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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