On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 03:57:12PM -0400, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
We are not using the STAGING inside drm and the uAPI needs to be in the acceptable form before we get merged upstream.
Is this a change from i915, where the force_probe protection is sufficient?
The email exchange with Greg KH highlighted that the use of STAGING outside of staging dir doesn't really produce the desired effect*. Would it be sufficient to taint the kernel with bit 10 or create a dedicated taint for this case? Lucas De Marchi * The logic for adding the taint is in the module load code and is triggered for modules with MODULE_INFO(staging), automatically added by modpost for modules under drivers/staging
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2023051029-overspend-sherry-1b85@gregkh/ Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Luis Strano <luis.strano@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst b/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst index 2516fe141db6..8524095a54bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst @@ -67,11 +67,8 @@ platforms. When the time comes for Xe, the protection will be lifted on Xe and kept in i915. -Xe driver will be protected with both STAGING Kconfig and force_probe. Changes in -the uAPI are expected while the driver is behind these protections. STAGING will -be removed when the driver uAPI gets to a mature state where we can guarantee the -‘no regression’ rule. Then force_probe will be lifted only for future platforms -that will be productized with Xe driver, but not with i915. +Xe driver will be protected with force_probe, which will be lifted only for +future platforms that will be productized with Xe driver, but not with i915. Xe – Pre-Merge Goals ==================== -- 2.39.2
