The discussion pretty much concluded without objections, let's document what we agreed on. Cc'ing linux-doc for the new tag in Documentation/process/index.rst. Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/process/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst b/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst index 1f8bd5ef5f9d..05a82bdfbca4 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst @@ -60,3 +60,28 @@ checkpatch or sparse. We welcome such contributions. Anyone looking to kick it up a notch can find a list of janitorial tasks on the :ref:`TODO list <todo>`. + +Contribution Process +==================== + +Mostly the DRM subsystem works like any other kernel subsystem, see :ref:`the +main process guidelines and documentation <process_index>` for how things work. +Here we just document some of the specialities of the GPU subsystem. + +Feature Merge Deadlines +----------------------- + +All feature work must be in the linux-next tree by the -rc6 release of the +current release cycle, otherwise they must be postponed and can't reach the next +merge window. All patches must have landed in the drm-next tree by latest -rc7, +but if your branch is not in linux-next then this must have happened by -rc6 +already. + +After that point only bugfixes (like after the upstream merge window has closed +with the -rc1 release) are allowed. No new platform enabling or new drivers are +allowed. + +This means that there's a blackout-period of about one month where feature work +can't be merged. The recommended way to deal with that is having a -next tree +that's always open, but making sure to not feed it into linux-next during the +blackout period. As an example, drm-misc works like that. diff --git a/Documentation/process/index.rst b/Documentation/process/index.rst index 10aa6920709a..82fc399fcd33 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/index.rst @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ \renewcommand\thesection* \renewcommand\thesubsection* +.. _process_index: Working with the kernel development community ============================================= -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
