On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 7:33 AM Dobrowolski, Lukasz (Nokia - PL/Wroclaw) <lukasz.dobrowolski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi! > > I have internal use case for an application that similar to fdtget but working directly on dts files. > Do You see merit in upstreaming such thing? Yes, but would like to understand the use better. What problem are you trying to solve that fdtget doesn't work? Perhaps it is too slow? Loss of type information (the little we have)? > Maybe it would be useful in testing? With C preprocessor defines and include files, you still need to run the input through something right? Or you want to ignore include files? If not, you're still going to need the front end of dtc at least. Then you need either some output format or to tap into dtc's livetree C structure. The checks code in dtc does the latter. I've hacked up dtc checks before to dump out things like all compatible strings when building a tree of dts files. Something I'd like to do is make that plug-able such that we could have multiple checks modules including ones in python. This would make it easier to add in the DT schema checking to dtc. Or maybe another way to approach it is making the dts->livetree parsing a library. Rob
