The discussion pretty much concluded without objections, let's document what we agreed on.
Cc'ing linux-doc for the new tag in Documentation/process/index.rst.
Cc: Jonathan Corbet corbet@lwn.net Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dave Airlie airlied@gmail.com Cc: Sean Paul seanpaul@chromium.org Cc: Jani Nikula jani.nikula@linux.intel.com Cc: Alex Deucher alexdeucher@gmail.com Cc: Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@intel.com --- Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/process/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst b/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst index 1f8bd5ef5f9d..05a82bdfbca4 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst @@ -60,3 +60,28 @@ checkpatch or sparse. We welcome such contributions.
Anyone looking to kick it up a notch can find a list of janitorial tasks on the :ref:`TODO list <todo>`. + +Contribution Process +==================== + +Mostly the DRM subsystem works like any other kernel subsystem, see :ref:`the +main process guidelines and documentation <process_index>` for how things work. +Here we just document some of the specialities of the GPU subsystem. + +Feature Merge Deadlines +----------------------- + +All feature work must be in the linux-next tree by the -rc6 release of the +current release cycle, otherwise they must be postponed and can't reach the next +merge window. All patches must have landed in the drm-next tree by latest -rc7, +but if your branch is not in linux-next then this must have happened by -rc6 +already. + +After that point only bugfixes (like after the upstream merge window has closed +with the -rc1 release) are allowed. No new platform enabling or new drivers are +allowed. + +This means that there's a blackout-period of about one month where feature work +can't be merged. The recommended way to deal with that is having a -next tree +that's always open, but making sure to not feed it into linux-next during the +blackout period. As an example, drm-misc works like that. diff --git a/Documentation/process/index.rst b/Documentation/process/index.rst index 10aa6920709a..82fc399fcd33 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/index.rst @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ \renewcommand\thesection* \renewcommand\thesubsection*
+.. _process_index:
Working with the kernel development community =============================================