[Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 2/2] ms/checkpatch.pl: adapt to new Assisted-by: format

Konstantin Khorenko khorenko at virtuozzo.com
Sat Oct 17 00:33:33 MSK 2026


From: Jeff Layton <jlayton at kernel.org>

There is a new format for the 'Assisted-by:' tag. Change checkpatch.pl
to just check that it has a value rather than testing for a specific
format.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260804-checkpatch-v1-1-27f29c79a46f at kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 2a8d68338ee77e200895f2697c56fd00094767f7)

Feature: fix ms/scripts
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko at virtuozzo.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index c30ff25f70182..d731293db83c1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3073,11 +3073,12 @@ sub process {
 				}
 			}
 
-			# Assisted-by uses AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION format, not email
+			# Assisted-by uses a free-form value (e.g. "LLM"), not an
+			# email address, so skip the email format checks below.
 			if ($sign_off =~ /^Assisted-by:/i) {
-				if ($email !~ /^\S+:\S+/) {
+				if ($email =~ /^\s*$/) {
 					WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF",
-					     "Assisted-by expects 'AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] [TOOL2]' format\n" . $herecurr);
+					     "Assisted-by requires a value\n" . $herecurr);
 				}
 				next;
 			}

-- 
2.43.0



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