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+DOs and DON'Ts for designing and writing Devicetree bindings
+
+This is a list of common review feedback items focused on binding design. With
+every rule, there are exceptions and bindings have many gray areas.
+
+For guidelines related to patches, see
+Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt
+
+
+Overall design
+
+- DO attempt to make bindings complete even if a driver doesn't support some
+  features. For example, if a device has an interrupt, then include the
+  'interrupts' property even if the driver is only polled mode.
+
+- DON'T refer to Linux or "device driver" in bindings. Bindings should be
+  based on what the hardware has, not what an OS and driver currently support.
+
+- DO use node names matching the class of the device. Many standard names are
+  defined in the DT Spec. If there isn't one, consider adding it.
+
+- DO check that the example matches the documentation especially after making
+  review changes.
+
+- DON'T create nodes just for the sake of instantiating drivers. Multi-function
+  devices only need child nodes when the child nodes have their own DT
+  resources. A single node can be multiple providers (e.g. clocks and resets).
+
+- DON'T use 'syscon' alone without a specific compatible string. A 'syscon'
+  hardware block should have a compatible string unique enough to infer the
+  register layout of the entire block (at a minimum).
+
+
+Properties
+
+- DO make 'compatible' properties specific. DON'T use wildcards in compatible
+  strings. DO use fallback compatibles when devices are the same as or a subset
+  of prior implementations. DO add new compatibles in case there are new
+  features or bugs.
+
+- DO use a vendor prefix on device specific property names. Consider if
+  properties could be common among devices of the same class. Check other
+  existing bindings for similar devices.
+
+- DON'T redefine common properties. Just reference the definition and define
+  constraints specific to the device.
+
+- DO use common property unit suffixes for properties with scientific units.
+  See property-units.txt.
+
+- DO define properties in terms of constraints. How many entries? What are
+  possible values? What is the order?
+
+
+Board/SoC .dts Files
+
+- DO put all MMIO devices under a bus node and not at the top-level.
+
+- DO use non-empty 'ranges' to limit the size of child buses/devices. 64-bit
+  platforms don't need all devices to have 64-bit address and size.