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-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
index 3423d873123a..8ea6ce7027d4 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
@@ -843,6 +843,11 @@ static void i915_workqueues_cleanup(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
* We don't keep the workarounds for pre-production hardware, so we expect our
* driver to fail on these machines in one way or another. A little warning on
* dmesg may help both the user and the bug triagers.
+ *
+ * Our policy for removing pre-production workarounds is to keep the
+ * current gen workarounds as a guide to the bring-up of the next gen
+ * (workarounds have a habit of persisting!). Anything older than that
+ * should be removed along with the complications they introduce.
*/
static void intel_detect_preproduction_hw(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
{