While tracking down various bits of i915 uAPI, it's been difficult to find the userspace much of the time because no one bothers to mention it in commit messages. Require the kernel patch to be a one-stop shop for finding the various bits which were used to justify the new uAPI.
Signed-off-by: Jason Ekstrand jason@jlekstrand.net Cc: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch Cc: Dave Airlie airlied@redhat.com --- Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst index 199afb503ab1..82f780bc3fce 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst @@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ leads to a few additional requirements: userspace patches land. uAPI always flows from the kernel, doing things the other way round risks divergence of the uAPI definitions and header files.
+- The kernel patch which adds the new uAPI **must** reference the patch series + or merge requests in the userspaces project which use the new uAPI and + against which the review was done so that future developers can find all of + the pieces which tie together. + These are fairly steep requirements, but have grown out from years of shared pain and experience with uAPI added hastily, and almost always regretted about just as fast. GFX devices change really fast, requiring a paradigm shift and