[PATCH] dt-bindings: Fix inconsistent quoting

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Thu Oct 16 05:06:36 PDT 2025


Hi Rob,

On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 at 13:46, Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 at 01:20, Rob Herring (Arm) <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > yamllint has gained a new check which checks for inconsistent quoting
> > > (mixed " and ' quotes within a file). Fix all the cases yamllint found
> > > so we can enable the check (once the check is in a release). Use
> > > whichever quoting is dominate in the file.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh at kernel.org>
> >
> > Thanks for your patch!
> >
> > Since you are mentioning mixed quotes, is one or the other preferred?
>
> I have a slight preference for single quotes.

OK, so outside human-readable descriptions, there should only be double
quotes in property values, i.e. on lines ending with a comma or a
semicolon.  Sounds like that can be scripted, or validated by scripting.

> > Shouldn't we try to be consistent across all files?
>
> I don't particularly care to change 915 files. And if the tools don't
> enforce it, I'm not going to do so in reviews.

Fair enough.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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