drm/i915: Add a policy note for removing workarounds
Rodrigo gave a persuasive argument for keeping workarounds: that they serve as a good guide for the bring up of the next generation. Not only do workarounds persist into the early revisions, they show where the workarounds were previously added to the code flow and sometimes the old workarounds have an explanation that give insight into their wider implications. Based on his suggestion, document the policy that we want to keep the workarounds from the current generation to guide the next. Older preproduction workarounds we still want to remove to keep the code clean. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171117102635.8689-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
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