On 10/28/2013 04:17 AM, David Gibson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 03:44:09PM +0100, Stephen Warren wrote: >> On 10/25/2013 12:43 AM, Grant Likely wrote: >>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 22:51:28 +0100, Stephen Warren >>> <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>> >>>> This is a very quick proof-of-concept re: how a DT schema >>>> checker might look if written in C, and integrated into dtc. >>> >>> Thanks for looking at this. >>> >>> Very interesting. Certainly an expedient way to start checking >>> schemas, and for certain bindings it may be the best approach. >>> The downside is it forces a recompilation of DTC to bring in >>> new bindings and it isn't a great meduim for mixing schema with >>> documentation in the bindings. >> >> This approach would certainly require recompiling something. I >> threw the code into dtc simply because it was the easiest >> container for the demonstration. It could be a separate DT >> validation utility if we wanted, although we'd need to split the >> DT parser from dtc into a library to avoid code duplication. The >> resultant utility could be part of the repo containing the DTs, >> so it didn't end up as a separate package to manage. >> >> I think the additional documentation could be added as comments >> in the validation functions, just like IIRC it was to be >> represented as comments even in the .dts-based schema proposals. > > Fwiw, I've been starting to do some hacking on the checks code, > with a view to making it accomodate the schema stuff better. > Branch 'checking' on the kernel.org tree. In a state of flux, so > expect rebases. Did you forget to push that? I don't see it in any of: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdl/dtc.git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git git://git.jdl.com/software/dtc.git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
