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From: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
To: Helen Koike <helen.fornazier@gmail.com>,
	Vignesh Raman <vignesh.raman@collabora.com>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Subject: [PATCH] drm/doc: recommend forking drm/kernel rather than uploading a distinct copy
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:56:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260219135645.261192-1-eric@engestrom.ch> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/gpu/automated_testing.rst | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git ./Documentation/gpu/automated_testing.rst ./Documentation/gpu/automated_testing.rst
index 62aa3ede02a5df3f590b..8a7328aef10ef39ee329 100644
--- ./Documentation/gpu/automated_testing.rst
+++ ./Documentation/gpu/automated_testing.rst
@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ How to enable automated testing on your tree
 ============================================
 
 1. Create a Linux tree in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ if you don't have one
-yet
+yet, by forking https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel (this allows GitLab
+to internally track that these are the same git objects).
 
 2. In your kernel repo's configuration (eg.
 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/janedoe/linux/-/settings/ci_cd), change the
-- 
Cheers,
  Eric


             reply	other threads:[~2026-02-19 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-19 13:56 Eric Engestrom [this message]
2026-02-20  5:38 ` [PATCH] drm/doc: recommend forking drm/kernel rather than uploading a distinct copy Vignesh Raman
2026-06-17 10:26   ` Vignesh Raman

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