[PATCH v2] drm: Document requirements for driver-specific KMS props in new drivers

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Tue Mar 19 15:36:06 UTC 2024


On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 11:20:09AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 04:58:58PM +0100, Sebastian Wick wrote:
> > When extending support for a driver-specific KMS property to additional
> > drivers, we should apply all the requirements for new properties and
> > make sure the semantics are the same and documented.
> > 
> > v2: devs of the driver which introduced property shall help and ack
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Wick <sebastian.wick at redhat.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
> 
> We probably want to have Dave or Sima ack on that one too

Yeah that's a good idea and defacto how we handled this - additional users
of anything (whether library or uapi or whatever) get to clean up an
existing mess if it's too bad. But for uapi it's good to be really
explicit and document that.

Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>

Cheers, Sima
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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