[PATCH v3 1/6] dtc: dt-check-style: Narrow disallowing of tab in DTS only to YAML
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-06 15:53:55
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open firmware and flattened device tree, the rest · Maintainers:
Rob Herring, Saravana Kannan, Linus Torvalds
DTS in the bindings (example in a YAML file) does not have tabs at all, but regular DTS do, therefore entire check check_tab_in_dts() has confusing name and should apply only to YAML files. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <redacted> --- Changes in v2: 1. New patch --- scripts/dtc/dt-check-style | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/dtc/dt-check-style b/scripts/dtc/dt-check-style
index 2d5723d41ea3..34e0f7e2a57a 100755
--- a/scripts/dtc/dt-check-style
+++ b/scripts/dtc/dt-check-style@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ def check_trailing_whitespace(ctx): yield (dl.lineno, 'trailing whitespace') -def check_tab_in_dts(ctx): +def check_tab_in_yaml_example(ctx): """Reject literal tabs in DTS lines when input is YAML. For YAML examples, indent and content must use spaces. Tabs inside
@@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ RULES = [ check_trailing_whitespace), Rule('tab-in-dts', 'relaxed', 'YAML examples may not contain tab characters', - check_tab_in_dts, applies_to=('yaml',)), + check_tab_in_yaml_example, applies_to=('yaml',)), Rule('mixed-indent-chars', 'relaxed', 'indent must not mix tabs and spaces', check_mixed_indent_chars),
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