We now require disclosure of the use of coding assistants, but our core
submitting-patches document does not mention that. Add a brief mention
with a pointer to Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
---
This is just a minimal change in the hope that a few more contributors
will see it. I realize that this document needs a rather more serious
thrash, but that's for later.
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index c88e75bf0534..d7290e208e72 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -634,6 +634,16 @@ 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
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