[PATCH] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Mention expectation about dt-check-style

[PATCH] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Mention expectation about dt-check-style

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

Any new DTS code should pass dt-check-style 'relaxed' mode without
warnings and should have addressed most of applicable 'strict' mode
ones.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
---
 Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
index fa91dfc53783..96a87794583b 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
@@ -170,6 +170,10 @@ For new platforms, or additions to existing ones, ``make dtbs_check`` should not
 add any new warnings.  For RISC-V and Samsung SoC, ``make dtbs_check W=1`` is
 required to not add any new warnings.
 
+Additionally new code must not have any scripts/dtc/dt-check-style warnings in
+'relaxed' mode and should have addressed most of the warnings in 'strict' mode
+(the latter mode might produce false positives).
+
 Branches and Pull Requests
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Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Mention expectation about dt-check-style

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2026 at 11:17 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com> wrote:

> Any new DTS code should pass dt-check-style 'relaxed' mode without
> warnings and should have addressed most of applicable 'strict' mode
> ones.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>

Makes sense!
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Mention expectation about dt-check-style

[patchwork-bot+linux-soc]

Hello:

This patch was applied to soc/soc.git (for-next)
by Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>:

On Mon,  3 Aug 2026 11:17:41 +0200 you wrote:
> Any new DTS code should pass dt-check-style 'relaxed' mode without
> warnings and should have addressed most of applicable 'strict' mode
> ones.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Here is the summary with links:
  - Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Mention expectation about dt-check-style
    https://git.kernel.org/soc/soc/c/9e758d3be022

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