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authorEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>2019-04-24 11:56:17 -0700
committerEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>2019-05-16 09:16:45 -0700
commitba6e798ecf320716780bb6a6088a8d17dcba1d49 (patch)
treeb1d3e689e633d22bc5aebed9a6583deba3a2cf47 /Documentation/gpu
parent3d42fca00891774c50585c1b2f83357a0904c8bc (diff)
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: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190424185617.16865-2-eric@anholt.net Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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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