Submitting My Second Device Tree Binding Patch for GSoC 2026 — Slower, More Careful, Less Wrong

A short introduction about me: Hey! I'm Anushka. I'm a UG college student, majoring in Information Technology, from India. I absolutely love learning about how systems work under the hood, and becoming a kernel developer is a dream of mine. This year, I am applying to GSoC, specifically the Project under Device Tree Bindings, which involves converting Device Tree Bindings to DT Schema. One of the prerequisites is to create a small patch that fixes a trivial issue in drivers/staging. So, in this post, I am documenting my process of doing exactly that. Note: This is not a tutorial, just my own devjournal documenting my learning process. In the last post, I submitted my first device tree binding patch, and my third kernel patch. With my first patch submitted, I decided to continue looking for more txt DT bindings to convert. While searching for new patches, and going through my last patch, I realized a core mistake I had made. Mistake in previous patch I realized that I had overlooked a m