There’s an old thread about this from 2016: https://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree-spec/msg00296.html In which its clearly stated that node names and property names technically can be the same. However, as we’ve starting utilizing tooling like JSON for validation, does it make sense to maintain this and should we update the specification to require that a node name and property name at the same hierarchy in the tree is not allowed? Otherwise we get into fun situations like, being valid DTS, but invalid YAML, and various tools not working correct as the YAML loaders have to pick one or there the other version of ‘foo’: [Example is from Marti] /dts-v1/; / { foo; foo { bar = <0>; }; }; (Using pyYAML) $ dtc -I dts -O yaml ./foo.dts | python -c 'import sys, yaml; print(yaml.safe_load(sys.stdin.read()))’ [{'foo': {'bar': [[0]]}}] (Using ruamel, w/allow_duplicate_keys as dt-schema does) $ dtc -I dts -O yaml ./foo.dts | python -c 'import sys, ruamel.yaml; yaml = ruamel.yaml.YAML(typ="safe"); yaml.allow_duplicate_keys = True; print(yaml.load(sys.stdin.read()))’ [{'foo': True}] - k
