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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: 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>
alistair/sunxi64-5.4-dsi
Eric Anholt 2019-04-24 11:56:17 -07:00
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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