[PATCH v3 6/6] dtc: dt-check-style: Handle properly DTC-style includes

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski

Date: Mon Jul 06 2026 - 12:32:02 EST


dt-check-style was not properly handling DTC directives (starting with
'/', e.g. /dts-v1/ or /include/), thus a few DTS files had false
positive like:

apm/apm-merlin.dts:1: [indent-unit-dts] indent unit must be 1 tab in DTS, got '\t\t'

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

---

Changes in v3:
New patch
---
scripts/dtc/dt-check-style | 11 ++++--
scripts/dtc/dt-style-selftest/good/dts-dtc.dts | 20 +++++++++++
.../dt-style-selftest/good/dts-preprocessor.dts | 20 +++++++++++
scripts/dtc/dt-style-selftest/good/soc.dtsi | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/dtc/dt-check-style b/scripts/dtc/dt-check-style
index 3c1aa9e28347..b8ba6dbee86d 100755
--- a/scripts/dtc/dt-check-style
+++ b/scripts/dtc/dt-check-style
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ re_cpp_directive = re.compile(
r'^#\s*(include|define|undef|ifdef|ifndef|if|else|elif|endif|'
r'pragma|error|warning)\b')

+re_dtc_directive = re.compile(
+ r'^/(dts-v1|include)/[;\s]')
+
# label: name@addr { -- label and addr optional; name can be "/"
# Per the DT spec a node name may start with a digit (e.g. 1wire@...).
# The address part is captured loosely (any non-space, non-brace run) so
@@ -66,7 +69,11 @@ re_ref_node = re.compile(

def is_preprocessor(stripped):
"""Tell C preprocessor directives apart from DTS '#'-prefixed props."""
- return re_cpp_directive.match(stripped) is not None
+ if re_cpp_directive.match(stripped) is not None:
+ return True
+ if re_dtc_directive.match(stripped) is not None:
+ return True
+ return False


class DtsLine:
@@ -178,7 +185,7 @@ def classify_lines(text):
out.append(dl)
continue

- if stripped.startswith('#') and is_preprocessor(stripped):
+ if (stripped.startswith('#') or stripped.startswith('/')) and is_preprocessor(stripped):
dl = DtsLine(i, raw, LineType.PREPROCESSOR,
indent_str, stripped)
dl.depth = depth
diff --git a/scripts/dtc/dt-style-selftest/good/dts-dtc.dts b/scripts/dtc/dt-style-selftest/good/dts-dtc.dts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4f249e9406c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/dtc/dt-style-selftest/good/dts-dtc.dts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause
+/*
+ * Test fixture: dtc directive
+ */
+
+/dts-v1/;
+
+/include/ "soc.dtsi"
+
+/ {
+ compatible = "example,test-board";
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+
+ leds {
+ led-0 {
+ compatible = "example,led";
+ };
+ };
+};
diff --git a/scripts/dtc/dt-style-selftest/good/dts-preprocessor.dts b/scripts/dtc/dt-style-selftest/good/dts-preprocessor.dts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..86cfd33086ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/dtc/dt-style-selftest/good/dts-preprocessor.dts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause
+/*
+ * Test fixture: preprocessor directive
+ */
+
+/dts-v1/;
+
+#include "soc.dtsi"
+
+/ {
+ compatible = "example,test-board";
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+
+ leds {
+ led-0 {
+ compatible = "example,led";
+ };
+ };
+};
diff --git a/scripts/dtc/dt-style-selftest/good/soc.dtsi b/scripts/dtc/dt-style-selftest/good/soc.dtsi
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..af7477cb8e3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/dtc/dt-style-selftest/good/soc.dtsi
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause
+/ {
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+
+ memory@a0000000 {
+ device_type = "memory";
+ reg = <0x0 0xa0000000 0x0 0x0>;
+ };
+
+ pmu {
+ compatible = "example,pmu";
+ };
+
+ soc@0 {
+ compatible = "simple-bus";
+ ranges = <0 0 0 0xc0000000>;
+
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+
+ interrupt-controller@10000 {
+ compatible = "example,intc";
+ reg = <0x10000 0x1000>;
+ interrupts = <1 2 3>,
+ <4 5 6>,
+ <7 8 9>;
+ };
+
+ serial@20000 {
+ compatible = "example,serial";
+ reg = <0x20000 0x1000>;
+ };
+
+ serial@30000 {
+ compatible = "example,serial";
+ reg = <0x30000 0x1000>;
+ };
+ };
+};

--
2.53.0