On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 01:55:59PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Thank you for the patch. > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 04:42:37PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > > Switch the DT validation to use DTB files directly instead of a DTS to > > YAML conversion. > > > > The original motivation for supporting validation on DTB files was to > > enable running validation on a running system (e.g. 'dt-validate > > /sys/firmware/fdt') or other cases where the original source DTS is not > > available. > > > > The YAML format was not without issues. Using DTBs with the schema type > > information solves some of those problems. The YAML format relies on the > > DTS source level information including bracketing of properties, size > > directives, and phandle tags all of which are lost in a DTB file. While > > standardizing the bracketing is a good thing, it does cause a lot of > > extra warnings and churn to fix them. > > It does indeed, but it's a bit sad to let that feature go :-S I agree, but I think that checking is better served with a DTS linter. Rob
