Commit ba6e798e authored by Eric Anholt's avatar Eric Anholt
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drm/doc: Document expectation that userspace review looks at kernel uAPI. 



The point of this review process is that userspace using the new uAPI
can actually live with the uAPI being provided, and it's hard to know
that without having actually looked into a kernel patch yourself.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Suggested-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190424185617.16865-2-eric@anholt.net


Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
parent 3d42fca0

Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst

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@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ leads to a few additional requirements: 
- The userspace side must be fully reviewed and tested to the standards of that

  userspace project. For e.g. mesa this means piglit testcases and review on the

  mailing list. This is again to ensure that the new interface actually gets the

  job done.

  job done.  The userspace-side reviewer should also provide at least an

  Acked-by on the kernel uAPI patch indicating that they've looked at how the

  kernel side is implementing the new feature being used.



- The userspace patches must be against the canonical upstream, not some vendor

  fork. This is to make sure that no one cheats on the review and testing

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