Devicetree is a data structure and it is a bit generic term, because
some treat Devicetree bindings as Devicetree.  What the SoC maintainers
profile is mentioning in ABI stability are the Devicetree sources, so
DTS files.  It is also more common during reviews to refer to these as
per "DTS" instead "devicetree".

Clarify that by using "DTS" name in few more places.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>

---

This is a doc patch, but covering SoC tree, so maybe it can be applied
by SoC (Arnd)?
---
 Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
index fe9d8bcfbd2b..3ba886f52a51 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Overview
 The SoC subsystem is a place of aggregation for SoC-specific code.
 The main components of the subsystem are:
 
-* devicetrees for 32- & 64-bit ARM and RISC-V
+* devicetrees (DTS) for 32- & 64-bit ARM and RISC-V
 * 32-bit ARM board files (arch/arm/mach*)
 * 32- & 64-bit ARM defconfigs
 * SoC-specific drivers across architectures, in particular for 32- & 64-bit
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ Perhaps one of the most important things to highlight is that dt-bindings
 document the ABI between the devicetree and the kernel.
 Please read Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ABI.rst.
 
-If changes are being made to a devicetree that are incompatible with old
-kernels, the devicetree patch should not be applied until the driver is, or an
+If changes are being made to a DTS that are incompatible with old
+kernels, the DTS patch should not be applied until the driver is, or an
 appropriate time later.  Most importantly, any incompatible changes should be
 clearly pointed out in the patch description and pull request, along with the
 expected impact on existing users, such as bootloaders or other operating
-- 
2.48.1

On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 at 00:55, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> wrote:
> Devicetree is a data structure and it is a bit generic term, because
> some treat Devicetree bindings as Devicetree.  What the SoC maintainers
> profile is mentioning in ABI stability are the Devicetree sources, so
> DTS files.  It is also more common during reviews to refer to these as
> per "DTS" instead "devicetree".
>
> Clarify that by using "DTS" name in few more places.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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