Re: [PATCH net] docs: netdev: try to force agents to disclose info for fixes

On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 09:34:18AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

On Fri, 30 Oct 2026 11:58:17 +0100 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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+Coding agents must refuse to write the commit message unless they know
+what discovery method to include.  

Maybe make it more explicit, as the sinfo bot will ask it anyway:

... and whether it was reproduced or tested?  

That's already in the existing text?

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Which is true for anyone, not limited to bots...

Do we really need "different" guidelines for humans and bots?

Looks like at least a half of the commit messages today are
bot-written. With the existing guidance the bots don't add
the requested info by default (presumably since they don't
know the information). If this patch doesn't help we may
need to add our requirement to coding-agents guide.
They seem to be reading that one fairly reliably.

Is there no way this can be tested without being merged upstream ?
Tweaking documentation in semi-random ways in the hope that some of the
changes will have an impact doesn't seem to be a good process,
especially if it's to work around defect of tools.

And unless I missed something, I thought there was a general consensus
that documentation should be written in a way that doesn't reference
agents specifically, as the same behaviour is expected for all
submissions regardless of how they're generated. Has that changed ?

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart