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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2.53.0

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