From 597bb9376b958ad97d5533af15a72ff992db7c5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:33:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add missing cooperative constructor changelog (#9559)

This was supposed to be part of #9488, but I only now noticed it was lying around uncommitted in my git dir
---
 changelog/9488.deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changelog/9488.deprecation.rst

diff --git a/changelog/9488.deprecation.rst b/changelog/9488.deprecation.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5c5807ec34a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/9488.deprecation.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+If custom subclasses of nodes like :class:`pytest.Item` override the
+``__init__`` method, they should take ``**kwargs``. See
+:ref:`uncooperative-constructors-deprecated` for details.
+
+Note that a deprection warning is only emitted when there is a conflict in the
+arguments pytest expected to pass. This deprecation was already part of pytest
+7.0.0rc1 but wasn't documented.