drm/doc: Document kapi doc expectations
We've had this already for anything new. With my drm_prime.c cleanup I
also think documentation for everything already existing is complete,
and we can bake this in as a requirements subsystem wide.
v2: Improve wording a bit (Laurent), fix typo in commit message (Sam).
Acked-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
Cc: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190704145054.5701-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst b/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst
index fccbe37..25a56e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/introduction.rst
@@ -51,6 +51,22 @@
Also read the :ref:`guidelines for the kernel documentation at large <doc_guide>`.
+Documentation Requirements for kAPI
+-----------------------------------
+
+All kernel APIs exported to other modules must be documented, including their
+datastructures and at least a short introductory section explaining the overall
+concepts. Documentation should be put into the code itself as kerneldoc comments
+as much as reasonable.
+
+Do not blindly document everything, but document only what's relevant for driver
+authors: Internal functions of drm.ko and definitely static functions should not
+have formal kerneldoc comments. Use normal C comments if you feel like a comment
+is warranted. You may use kerneldoc syntax in the comment, but it shall not
+start with a /** kerneldoc marker. Similar for data structures, annotate
+anything entirely private with ``/* private: */`` comments as per the
+documentation guide.
+
Getting Started
===============