Jakub Kicinski wrote: [..] > To be clear, it's not my main point, my main point is that > the information is of no proven use right now. As long as > committer follows the BKP of adding Link: https://patch.msgid.link/... > we can find the metadata later. > > We never found the need to attach the exact version of smatch / sparse > / cocci that found the bug or "wrote" a patch. Let us not overreact to > the AI tools. > > > Also, I would argue that it would be useful in the change log as if there's > > a bug in the generated code, you know who or *what* to blame. Especially if > > there is a pattern to be found. > > This touches on explainability of AI. Perhaps the metadata would be > interesting for XAI research... not sure that's enough to be lugging > those tags in git history. Agree. The "who to blame" is "Author:". They signed DCO they are responsible for debugging what went wrong in any stage of the development of a patch per usual. We have a long history of debugging tool problems without tracking tool versions in git history.
