Re: dtbs_check issue

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Hi Rob,

On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 5:57 PM Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 9:23 AM Lad, Prabhakar
> <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Krzysztof,
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 4:12 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski
> > <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 21/07/2022 17:07, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> > > > Fyi keeping even a single SMARC board in arm renesas.yaml schema I see
> > > > dtbs_check failures.
> > > >
> > > > Any pointers on how I can get around this issue?
> > >
> > > Few months ago:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/cf7728fd-b5c8-cd3d-6074-d27f38f86545@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > >
> > Thanks for the link.
> >
> > > Although Rob admitted in the thread this is in general allowed
> > > configuration, to me it is still confusing - the left-most compatible is
> > > not the most specific. Non obvious, confusing and it seems dtschema does
> > > not support it?
> > >
> > It looks like dtschema does not support it.
>
> The issue is the same as licensed IP where we have a generic
> compatible and per licensee compatibles in separate schemas. The
> solution anytime a compatible exists in more than 1 schema is a custom
> 'select' which excludes that compatible. That would be messy here
> though due to the large number of compatibles. Perhaps we could
> instead merge a custom select with the default generated one. Then the
> schema would just need:
>
> select:
>   not:
>     properties:
>       contains:
>         const: renesas,smarc-evk
>
> We'd have to figure out when to merge or not merge. Maybe only merge a
> 'not' schema.
>
Agreed with this approach the select list might keep growing.

>
> The other way to solve this is simply not having 2 schema files. Why
> do we have SoC/board schemas under a CPU arch directory? There's
> nothing architecture specific about them (I have the same opinion on
> .dts files too). So I'd be in favor of putting all root node schemas
> in one directory.
>
Agreed, but what do we name the directory which has root node schemas?

Geert, are you ok with moving the schema out and having a single file
for all the Renesas SoC'/Boards?

Cheers,
Prabhakar



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