linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?]

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Message-ID: <1374955389.2923.101.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:03:09 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	"jonsmirl@...il.com" <jonsmirl@...il.com>
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org" 
	<ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	Pawel Moll <Pawel.Moll@....com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
	Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com>,
	"rob.herring@...xeda.com" <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@...il.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
	Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have
 people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?]

On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 16:01 -0400, jonsmirl@...il.com wrote:
> 
> Much cleaner to modify dtc to take a schema as part of the compilation
> process. The schema language itself has no requirement to look like
> DTS syntax. Whoever wrote dtc probably has a favorite language that
> would be good for writing schemas in.

Yes, we *definitely* want dtc to be doing the validation when it builds
trees. And warning (and needing an additional and suitably scarily named
command line option) if you try to build something *without* a schema.

-- 
dwmw2


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