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From:   Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
To:     dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
Cc:     Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: gpu: Mention the requirements for new properties
Date:   Tue, 11 May 2021 17:55:12 +0200
Message-Id: <20210511155512.582798-1-maxime@cerno.tech>
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New KMS properties come with a bunch of requirements to avoid each
driver from running their own, inconsistent, set of properties,
eventually leading to issues like property conflicts, inconsistencies
between drivers and semantics, etc.

Let's document what we expect.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
---
 Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst
index 87e5023e3f55..30f4c376f419 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst
@@ -463,6 +463,24 @@ KMS Properties
 This section of the documentation is primarily aimed at user-space developers.
 For the driver APIs, see the other sections.
 
+Requirements
+------------
+
+KMS drivers might need to add extra properties to support new features.
+Each new property introduced in a driver need to meet a few
+requirements, in addition to the one mentioned above.:
+
+- It must be standardized, with some documentation to describe the
+  property can be used.
+
+- It must provide a generic helper in the core code to register that
+  property on the object it attaches to.
+
+- Its content must be decoded by the core and provided in the object
+  associated state structure.
+
+- An IGT test must be submitted.
+
 Property Types and Blob Property Support
 ----------------------------------------
 
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