From: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala@intel.com>
To: igt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala@intel.com>
Subject: [igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t] CONTRIBUTING: Document guidelines for interface deprecation
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 16:33:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200409133355.9606-1-petri.latvala@intel.com> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala@intel.com>
Cc: Arkadiusz Hiler <arkadiusz.hiler@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
---
CONTRIBUTING.md | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 6d1294ad..2ab8a48f 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ The Code
provided by the igt library. The semantic patch lib/igt.cocci can help with
more automatic conversions.
+- Tests that use kernel interfaces (uapi, sysfs, or even debugfs) that
+ become deprecated in favour of new interfaces should have fallbacks
+ to the deprecated interfaces if the new stuff is not present in the
+ running kernel. The same IGT version can be used to test the tip of
+ development along with stable kernel releases that way.
+
[igt-describe]: https://drm.pages.freedesktop.org/igt-gpu-tools/igt-gpu-tools-Core.html#igt-describe
--
2.20.1
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2020-04-09 13:33 Petri Latvala [this message]
2020-04-09 14:24 ` [igt-dev] ✓ Fi.CI.BAT: success for CONTRIBUTING: Document guidelines for interface deprecation Patchwork
2020-04-10 6:25 ` [igt-dev] ✓ Fi.CI.IGT: " Patchwork
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