diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst
index 2a5533f68830..6b1c064d4966 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ I. For patch submitters
      See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/writing-schema.rst for more details
      about schema and tools setup.
 
+     The example DTS in new bindings should pass scripts/dtc/dt-check-style in
+     'strict' mode without warnings.
+
   3) DT binding files should be dual licensed. The preferred license tag is
      (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause).