diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
index a752aa561ea4d256341274aafdeaf2ebc45c872f..c9fd23efd957370142f4f785f15c80e54fbc2995 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
@@ -238,6 +238,14 @@ DRM specific patterns. Note that ENOTTY has the slightly unintuitive meaning of
 Testing and validation
 ======================
 
+Testing Requirements for userspace API
+--------------------------------------
+
+New cross-driver userspace interface extensions, like new IOCTL, new KMS
+properties, new files in sysfs or anything else that constitutes an API change
+should have driver-agnostic testcases in IGT for that feature, if such a test
+can be reasonably made using IGT for the target hardware.
+
 Validating changes with IGT
 ---------------------------