docs: add an Assisted-by mention to submitting-patches.rst

We now require disclosure of the use of coding assistants, but our core
submitting-patches document does not mention that.  Add a brief mention
with a pointer to Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <877bqtlzug.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
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Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-30 16:25:11 -06:00
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@@ -634,6 +634,16 @@ bugzilla.kernel.org is a public place in this sense, but email addresses
used there are private; so do not expose them in tags, unless the person
used them in earlier contributions.
Using Assisted-by:
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If you used any sort of advanced coding tool in the creation of your patch,
you need to acknowledge that use by adding an Assisted-by tag. Failure to
do so may impede the acceptance of your work. Please see
Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst for details regarding the
acknowledgment of coding assistants.
.. _the_canonical_patch_format:
The canonical patch format