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| author | Petri Latvala <petri.latvala@intel.com> | 2020-04-09 16:33:55 +0300 |
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| committer | Petri Latvala <petri.latvala@intel.com> | 2023-01-18 16:22:27 +0200 |
| commit | a4ead43ad05a682a71b13a6fe5404bd253b39234 (patch) | |
| tree | a30c098566a59d25a748b1bf92f8c47eec106006 /CONTRIBUTING.md | |
| parent | aa16e81259f59734230d441905b9d0f605e4a4b5 (diff) | |
CONTRIBUTING: Document guidelines for interface deprecation
Signed-off-by: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala@intel.com>
Cc: Arkadiusz Hiler <arkadiusz.hiler@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamil Konieczny <kamil.konieczny@linux.intel.com>
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 6d1294add..2ab8a48f6 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 |