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.

7. Identify the maintainers and lists using scripts/get_maintainer.pl. Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst shows how to do that.
8. 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