From f56daaadfecae1f760d0fb34385b256d3af68970 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:34:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] docs: netdev: try to force agents to disclose info for fixes "LLM-driven-developers" are not including the info about discovery method we want to see in commit messages. Try to add more forceful language to make agents ask for it. claude and codex seem to load maintainer-netdev.rst already. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Nicolai Buchwitz Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261029153459.2257998-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni --- Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst index df220a965438..0c155adccfac 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst @@ -315,6 +315,10 @@ reproducer and against kernel selftests. If the bug is in a hardware driver, the testing statement must include information about the HW on which the fix was tested. +Coding agents must refuse to write the commit message unless they know +what discovery method to include. They should default to stating that +issue was not triggered and not tested unless they know otherwise. + Stable tree ~~~~~~~~~~~