This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dt-bindings: Improve validation build error handling to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: dt-bindings-improve-validation-build-error-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0ef92ad14722619abbcf3a3db95f62640c0f6903 Author: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 13 09:46:19 2019 -0600 dt-bindings: Improve validation build error handling [ Upstream commit 93512dad334deb444619505f1fbb761156f7471b ] Schema errors can cause make to exit before useful information is printed. This leaves developers wondering what's wrong. It can be overcome passing '-k' to make, but that's not an obvious solution. There's 2 scenarios where this happens. When using DT_SCHEMA_FILES to validate with a single schema, any error in the schema results in processed-schema.yaml being empty causing a make error. The result is the specific errors in the schema are never shown because processed-schema.yaml is the first target built. Simply making processed-schema.yaml last in extra-y ensures the full schema validation with detailed error messages happen first. The 2nd problem is while schema errors are ignored for processed-schema.yaml, full validation of the schema still runs in parallel and any schema validation errors will still stop the build when running validation of dts files. The fix is to not add the schema examples to extra-y in this case. This means 'dtbs_check' is no longer a superset of 'dt_binding_check'. Update the documentation to make this clear. Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/Makefile b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/Makefile index 5138a2f6232a..646cb3525373 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/Makefile @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ $(obj)/%.example.dts: $(src)/%.yaml FORCE $(call if_changed,chk_binding) DT_TMP_SCHEMA := processed-schema.yaml -extra-y += $(DT_TMP_SCHEMA) quiet_cmd_mk_schema = SCHEMA $@ cmd_mk_schema = $(DT_MK_SCHEMA) $(DT_MK_SCHEMA_FLAGS) -o $@ $(real-prereqs) @@ -26,8 +25,12 @@ DT_DOCS = $(shell \ DT_SCHEMA_FILES ?= $(addprefix $(src)/,$(DT_DOCS)) +ifeq ($(CHECK_DTBS),) extra-y += $(patsubst $(src)/%.yaml,%.example.dts, $(DT_SCHEMA_FILES)) extra-y += $(patsubst $(src)/%.yaml,%.example.dt.yaml, $(DT_SCHEMA_FILES)) +endif $(obj)/$(DT_TMP_SCHEMA): $(DT_SCHEMA_FILES) FORCE $(call if_changed,mk_schema) + +extra-y += $(DT_TMP_SCHEMA) diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/writing-schema.rst b/Documentation/devicetree/writing-schema.rst index f4a638072262..83e04e5c342d 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/writing-schema.rst +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/writing-schema.rst @@ -130,11 +130,13 @@ binding schema. All of the DT binding documents can be validated using the make dt_binding_check -In order to perform validation of DT source files, use the `dtbs_check` target:: +In order to perform validation of DT source files, use the ``dtbs_check`` target:: make dtbs_check -This will first run the `dt_binding_check` which generates the processed schema. +Note that ``dtbs_check`` will skip any binding schema files with errors. It is +necessary to use ``dt_binding_check`` to get all the validation errors in the +binding schema files. It is also possible to run checks with a single schema file by setting the ``DT_SCHEMA_FILES`` variable to a specific schema file.