[PATCH] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Mention expectation about dt-check-style
Krzysztof Kozlowski
krzysztof.kozlowski at oss.qualcomm.com
Mon Aug 3 02:17:41 PDT 2026
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 at 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).
+
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