drm/todo: Add levels

Should help new people pick suitable tasks.

Cc: Rodrigo Siqueira <rodrigosiqueiramelo@gmail.com>
Cc: Manasi Navare <manasi.d.navare@intel.com>
Cc: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>
Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191022152530.22038-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch

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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
index 9ac102922712..73c51b5a0997 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,22 @@ TODO list
 This section contains a list of smaller janitorial tasks in the kernel DRM
 graphics subsystem useful as newbie projects. Or for slow rainy days.
 
+Difficulty
+----------
+
+To make it easier task are categorized into different levels:
+
+Starter: Good tasks to get started with the DRM subsystem.
+
+Intermediate: Tasks which need some experience with working in the DRM
+subsystem, or some specific GPU/display graphics knowledge. For debugging issue
+it's good to have the relevant hardware (or a virtual driver set up) available
+for testing.
+
+Advanced: Tricky tasks that need fairly good understanding of the DRM subsystem
+and graphics topics. Generally need the relevant hardware for development and
+testing.
+
 Subsystem-wide refactorings
 ===========================
 
@@ -20,6 +36,8 @@ implementations), and then remove it.
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
 
+Level: Intermediate
+
 Convert existing KMS drivers to atomic modesetting
 --------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -38,6 +56,8 @@ do by directly using the new atomic helper driver callbacks.
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
 
+Level: Advanced
+
 Clean up the clipped coordination confusion around planes
 ---------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -50,6 +70,8 @@ helpers.
 
 Contact: Ville Syrjälä, Daniel Vetter, driver maintainers
 
+Level: Advanced
+
 Convert early atomic drivers to async commit helpers
 ----------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -63,6 +85,8 @@ events for atomic commits correctly. But fixing these bugs is good anyway.
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
 
+Level: Advanced
+
 Fallout from atomic KMS
 -----------------------
 
@@ -91,6 +115,8 @@ interfaces to fix these issues:
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter
 
+Level: Intermediate
+
 Get rid of dev->struct_mutex from GEM drivers
 ---------------------------------------------
 
@@ -114,6 +140,8 @@ fine-grained per-buffer object and per-context lockings scheme. Currently only t
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
 
+Level: Advanced
+
 Convert instances of dev_info/dev_err/dev_warn to their DRM_DEV_* equivalent
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -129,6 +157,8 @@ are better.
 
 Contact: Sean Paul, Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert
 
+Level: Starter
+
 Convert drivers to use simple modeset suspend/resume
 ----------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -139,6 +169,8 @@ of the atomic suspend/resume code in older atomic modeset drivers.
 
 Contact: Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert
 
+Level: Intermediate
+
 Convert drivers to use drm_fb_helper_fbdev_setup/teardown()
 -----------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -157,6 +189,8 @@ probably use drm_fb_helper_fbdev_teardown().
 
 Contact: Maintainer of the driver you plan to convert
 
+Level: Intermediate
+
 Clean up mmap forwarding
 ------------------------
 
@@ -166,6 +200,8 @@ There's drm_gem_prime_mmap() for this now, but still needs to be rolled out.
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter
 
+Level: Intermediate
+
 Generic fbdev defio support
 ---------------------------
 
@@ -196,6 +232,8 @@ Might be good to also have some igt testcases for this.
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter, Noralf Tronnes
 
+Level: Advanced
+
 idr_init_base()
 ---------------
 
@@ -206,6 +244,8 @@ efficient.
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter
 
+Level: Starter
+
 struct drm_gem_object_funcs
 ---------------------------
 
@@ -216,6 +256,8 @@ We also need a 2nd version of the CMA define that doesn't require the
 vmapping to be present (different hook for prime importing). Plus this needs to
 be rolled out to all drivers using their own implementations, too.
 
+Level: Intermediate
+
 Use DRM_MODESET_LOCK_ALL_* helpers instead of boilerplate
 ---------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -231,6 +273,8 @@ As a reference, take a look at the conversions already completed in drm core.
 
 Contact: Sean Paul, respective driver maintainers
 
+Level: Starter
+
 Rename CMA helpers to DMA helpers
 ---------------------------------
 
@@ -241,6 +285,9 @@ no one knows what that means) since underneath they just use dma_alloc_coherent.
 
 Contact: Laurent Pinchart, Daniel Vetter
 
+Level: Intermediate (mostly because it is a huge tasks without good partial
+milestones, not technically itself that challenging)
+
 Convert direct mode.vrefresh accesses to use drm_mode_vrefresh()
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -259,6 +306,8 @@ drm_display_mode to avoid future use.
 
 Contact: Sean Paul
 
+Level: Starter
+
 Remove drm_display_mode.hsync
 -----------------------------
 
@@ -269,6 +318,8 @@ it to use drm_mode_hsync() instead.
 
 Contact: Sean Paul
 
+Level: Starter
+
 drm_fb_helper tasks
 -------------------
 
@@ -284,6 +335,8 @@ drm_fb_helper tasks
   removed: drm_fb_helper_single_add_all_connectors(),
   drm_fb_helper_add_one_connector() and drm_fb_helper_remove_one_connector().
 
+Level: Intermediate
+
 connector register/unregister fixes
 -----------------------------------
 
@@ -296,6 +349,8 @@ connector register/unregister fixes
   drm_dp_aux_init, and moving the actual registering into a late_register
   callback as recommended in the kerneldoc.
 
+Level: Intermediate
+
 Core refactorings
 =================
 
@@ -338,6 +393,8 @@ This is a really varied tasks with lots of little bits and pieces:
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter
 
+Level: Advanced
+
 Clean up the debugfs support
 ----------------------------
 
@@ -367,6 +424,8 @@ There's a bunch of issues with it:
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter
 
+Level: Intermediate
+
 KMS cleanups
 ------------
 
@@ -382,6 +441,8 @@ Some of these date from the very introduction of KMS in 2008 ...
   end, for which we could add drm_*_cleanup_kfree(). And then there's the (for
   historical reasons) misnamed drm_primary_helper_destroy() function.
 
+Level: Intermediate
+
 Better Testing
 ==============
 
@@ -390,6 +451,8 @@ Enable trinity for DRM
 
 And fix up the fallout. Should be really interesting ...
 
+Level: Advanced
+
 Make KMS tests in i-g-t generic
 -------------------------------
 
@@ -403,6 +466,8 @@ converting things over. For modeset tests we also first need a bit of
 infrastructure to use dumb buffers for untiled buffers, to be able to run all
 the non-i915 specific modeset tests.
 
+Level: Advanced
+
 Extend virtual test driver (VKMS)
 ---------------------------------
 
@@ -412,6 +477,8 @@ fit the available time.
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter
 
+Level: See details
+
 Backlight Refactoring
 ---------------------
 
@@ -425,6 +492,8 @@ Plan to fix this:
 
 Contact: Daniel Vetter
 
+Level: Intermediate
+
 Driver Specific
 ===============
 
@@ -453,6 +522,8 @@ for fbdev.
 
 Contact: Sam Ravnborg
 
+Level: Advanced
+
 Outside DRM
 ===========
 
@@ -482,3 +553,5 @@ and Weston.
  - [2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tzimmermann/linux/blob/fbconv/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbconv_helper.c
 
 Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
+
+Level: Advanced