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.w...@redhat.com> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <mrip...@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch> --- Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst index 13d3627d8bc0..b98b98359c90 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst @@ -496,6 +496,13 @@ addition to the one mentioned above: * An IGT test must be submitted where reasonable. +For historical reasons, non-standard, driver-specific properties exist. If a KMS +driver wants to add support for one of those properties, the requirements for +new properties apply where possible. Additionally, the documented behavior must +match the de facto semantics of the existing property to ensure compatibility. +Developers of the driver that first added the property should help with those +tasks and must ACK the documented behavior if possible. + Property Types and Blob Property Support ---------------------------------------- -- 2.44.0
