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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:04:10 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: dt-bindings: add DTS Coding Style document
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
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Hi Krzysztof,

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 1:36 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 21/11/2023 12:55, Michal Simek wrote:
> >>> device-tree specification v0.4. Chapter 2.2.1/Table 2.1 is describing much more
> >>> valid characters for node names.
> >>> It means above description is not accurate or DT spec should be updated.
> >>
> >> Spec allows way to much. dtc doesn't.
> >> One thing is the spec, second
> >> thing is coding style.
> >
> >  From my point of view spec is primary source of truth. If spec is saying name
> > can use upper case then I can use it. If upper case is not
> > recommended/deprecated because of whatever reason spec should be updated to
> > reflect it.
> > I know that DTC is reporting other issues but isn't it the right way to reflect
> > it back to the spec?
>
> Then why aren't you putting Linux Coding Style into C spec? I do not see
> any relation between specification of the language and the coding style
> chosen for given project.
>
> Zephyr can go with upper-case. Why it should be disallowed by the spec?

I thought there was only One DT to bind them all?
IMHO it would be better to align DT usage of Zephyr and Linux (and
anything else).


Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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