On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:12:54 -0400 Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Some sort of a "traffic light" system: > >> > >> 1. Green: the subsystem is happy to receive patches from any source. > >> > >> 2. Yellow: "If you're unfamiliar with the subsystem and using any > >> tooling to generate your patches, please have a reviewed-by from a > >> trusted developer before sending your patch". > >> > >> 3. No tool-generated patches without prior maintainer approval. > > Actually, I'm not sure I care for the above, because honestly, I wouldn't know which to set my subsystem to. It would be a case by case basis. Sometimes I'm fine with the automated tooling as I can tell that the one using it knows what they are doing and use it as a tool. But I have refused patches from people where it was obvious that they had no idea of what they were doing and just submitted something because "checkpatch" or "coccinelle" said so. -- Steve
