Hello Krzysztof,
On 2025-03-05 10:36, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
On 05/03/2025 09:45, Dragan Simic wrote:
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dts-coding-style.rst
b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dts-coding-style.rst
index 8a68331075a0..15de3ede2d9c 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dts-coding-style.rst
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dts-coding-style.rst
@@ -133,6 +133,12 @@ The above-described ordering follows this
approach:
3. Status is the last information to annotate that device node is or
is not
finished (board resources are needed).
+The above-described ordering specifies the preferred ordering of
property
+groups, while the individual properties inside each group shall use
natural
+sort order by the property name. More specifically, natural sort
order shall
+apply to multi-digit numbers found inside the property names, while
alpha-
+numerical ordering shall apply otherwise.
The last sentence was not here and I don't get the point. Natural sort
order should be always preferred over alpha-numerical for properties.
About which other case ("...apply otherwise.") are you thinking?
Yes, I added that sentence in the v2 to, hopefully, clarify the natural
sort order itself a bit. I've researched the natural sort order a bit
further, and it technically applies only to the multi-digit numbers
found
inside the sorted strings. That's what I wanted to explain, and "shall
apply otherwise" refers to applying the alpha-numerical sort order to
the
remainders of the sorted strings, i.e. to everything but the multi-digit
numbers found in the property names.
