Hi Maxime,

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 07:47:31PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alexandre Torgue <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alison Wang <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alyssa Rosenzweig <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrew Jeffery <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrzej Hajda <[email protected]>
> Cc: Anitha Chrisanthus <[email protected]>
> Cc: Benjamin Gaignard <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>
> Cc: Boris Brezillon <[email protected]>
> Cc: Brian Starkey <[email protected]>
> Cc: Chen Feng <[email protected]>
> Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <[email protected]>
> Cc: Christian Gmeiner <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Christian König" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Chun-Kuang Hu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Edmund Dea <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eric Anholt <[email protected]>
> Cc: Fabio Estevam <[email protected]>
> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <[email protected]>
> Cc: Haneen Mohammed <[email protected]>
> Cc: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Heiko Stübner" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Huang Rui <[email protected]>
> Cc: Hyun Kwon <[email protected]>
> Cc: Inki Dae <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jernej Skrabec <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jerome Brunet <[email protected]>
> Cc: Joel Stanley <[email protected]>
> Cc: John Stultz <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jonas Karlman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jonathan Hunter <[email protected]>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Joonyoung Shim <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jyri Sarha <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kevin Hilman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kieran Bingham <[email protected]>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kyungmin Park <[email protected]>
> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
> Cc: Liviu Dudau <[email protected]>
> Cc: Lucas Stach <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ludovic Desroches <[email protected]>
> Cc: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>
> Cc: Martin Blumenstingl <[email protected]>
> Cc: Matthias Brugger <[email protected]>
> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <[email protected]>
> Cc: Melissa Wen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Neil Armstrong <[email protected]>
> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Noralf Trønnes" <[email protected]>
> Cc: NXP Linux Team <[email protected]>
> Cc: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <[email protected]>
> Cc: Patrik Jakobsson <[email protected]>
> Cc: Paul Cercueil <[email protected]>
> Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team <[email protected]>
> Cc: Philippe Cornu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Philipp Zabel <[email protected]>
> Cc: Qiang Yu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rob Clark <[email protected]>
> Cc: Robert Foss <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rodrigo Siqueira <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <[email protected]>
> Cc: Roland Scheidegger <[email protected]>
> Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sandy Huang <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sean Paul <[email protected]>
> Cc: Seung-Woo Kim <[email protected]>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <[email protected]>
> Cc: Stefan Agner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Steven Price <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sumit Semwal <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thierry Reding <[email protected]>
> Cc: Tian Tao <[email protected]>
> Cc: Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]>
> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <[email protected]>
> Cc: VMware Graphics <[email protected]>
> Cc: Xinliang Liu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Xinwei Kong <[email protected]>
> Cc: Yannick Fertre <[email protected]>
> Cc: Zack Rusin <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <[email protected]>
> 
> ---
> 
> Changes from v2:
>   - Take into account the feedback from Laurent and Lidiu to no longer
>     force generic properties, but prefix vendor-specific properties with
>     the vendor name
> 
> Changes from v1:
>   - Typos and wording reported by Daniel and Alex
> ---
>  Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst
> index 87e5023e3f55..bbe254dca635 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst
> @@ -463,6 +463,33 @@ 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.:
> +
> +- Before the introduction of any vendor-specific properties, they must
> +  be first checked against the generic ones to avoid any conflict or
> +  redundancy.
> +
> +- Vendor-specific properties must be prefixed by the vendor's name,
> +  following the syntax "$vendor:$property".
> +
> +- Generic properties must be standardized, with some documentation to
> +  describe how the property can be used.
> +
> +- Generic properties must provide a generic helper in the core code to
> +  register that property on the object it attaches to.
> +
> +- Generic properties content must be decoded by the core and provided in
> +  the object's associated state structure. That includes anything
> +  drivers might want to precompute, like :c:type:`struct drm_clip_rect
> +  <drm_clip_rect>` for planes.
> +
> +- An IGT test should be submitted.
> +
>  Property Types and Blob Property Support
>  ----------------------------------------

Looks nice, thanks for the work!

Reviewed-by: Liviu Dudau <[email protected]>

Best regards,
Liviu

>  
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