Hi On Thu, Sep 3, 2026 at 2:05 PM Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> wrote: > > The QEMU community has broad consent to not accept assisted-by and similar > trailers, and much less fake co-authored-bys, independent of any AI policy. > Implement this in checkpatch.pl already, so that there is another way for > contributors to discover the AI policy. > > Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> > --- > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 12 ++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > index 03f35e75012..90cb40dfe1f 100755 > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > @@ -1811,6 +1811,18 @@ sub process { > } > } > > +# Reject trailers that credit an AI agent. > + if ($realfile =~ /^$/ && > + ($line =~ /🤖/ || > + $line =~ /^\s*(?:Assisted|Generated)-by:/i || > + ($line =~ /^\s*Co-authored-by:\s*(.*?)\s*$/i && > + $1 =~ /\bcopilot\b | \bchatgpt\b | \bcodex\b | > \bcursor\b | \[bot\] | > + \bllama\b | > \bgemini\b.*(?:pro|flash|ultra|google\.com) | > + > \bclaude\b.*(?:opus|sonnet|fable|haiku|anthropic\.com)/xi))) { > + ERROR("QEMU does not allow using AI for > contributions, " . > + "see docs/devel/code-provenance.rst\n" . > $herecurr); > + } > + > # Check SPDX-License-Identifier references a permitted license > if (($rawline =~ m,SPDX-License-Identifier: (.*?)(\*/)?\s*$,) > && > $rawline !~ /^-/) { > --
lgtm, on subject of trailer checks, I would also kindly ask for review: https://patchew.org/QEMU/[email protected]/ thanks! -- Marc-André Lureau
