"Ease of parsing" may have been the initial argument for keeping this string in lower-case, but parsers may have been written that expect lower-case only. For example, the one in released kernels currently does not behave correctly for multi-letter extensions that begin with a capital letter. Allowing upper-case here brings about no benefit but would break compatibility between new devicetrees and older kernels. Drop the comment to avoid confusing people. Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml index f24cf9601c6e..9e273a3264e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ properties: While the isa strings in ISA specification are case insensitive, letters in the riscv,isa string must be all - lowercase to simplify parsing. + lowercase. $ref: "/schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string" pattern: ^rv(?:64|32)imaf?d?q?c?b?k?j?p?v?h?(?:[hsxz](?:[a-z])+)?(?:_[hsxz](?:[a-z])+)*$ -- 2.39.2