+cc the participants from that thread FYI. The original patch is at [2]. On Fri, Oct 09, 2026 at 12:05:06PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 09/10/2026 10:31, Sasha Levin wrote: > > The Maintainers Summit reached consensus to deprecate the Assisted-by > > tag. Remove the documentation requiring it. > > Please provide here some sort of arguments used in that summit > consensus/discussion. This basically reverts/changes previous consensus > [1], which is fine itself, but it lacks reasoning. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/2026070224-unholy-commode-cf45@gregkh/
Thanks for linking that! It is important to ack previous discussion on this. Also LWN article is up now at [3]. I'm less bothered than you might think by this change. The tag's useful for push back on review, but the only long-term strategy for slop is to aggressively ignore it. Linus has made that clear that that's fine. What kills the project is having 1,000 slop submissions that 2 or 3 people have to do something with. The only long-term solution to that is to hit mark read 1,000 times :) Sasha - maybe worth linking the LWN article now it's up in the commit message and adding a little more detail around the decision? Otherwise LGTM: Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <[email protected]> -- Cheers, Lorenzo [2]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ [3]:https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/
