Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: handle PCI/USB VID,PID in DT compatible

[Brian Norris]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 2:31 PM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 06:24:40PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/usb-device.txt describes the
> > 'usbVID,...' compatible format, where VID is lower-case hexadecimal,
> > with leading zeroes suppressed. Allow it here without complaining about
> > lack of documentation (we don't need a new entry for every ID).
> >
> > PCI has a similar format
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/pci.txt
> > http://www.devicetree.org/open-firmware/bindings/pci/pci2_1.pdf
> >
> > For both, I try to detect something that's close to a VID,PID, but I
> > intentionally don't parse beyond 4 characters of PID, since USB supports
> > extending with an interface index, and PCI supports additional subystem
> > IDs.
>
> Now that we have DT schema, that would be a better place to check the
> formatting. So I'm fine with this, but going back to the simpler version
> would be fine too.
>
> We will also be able to really check that compatibles are documented
> rather than just grepping the bindings for a compatible string.

I'm mostly interested in removing checkpatch's false warnings, however
that's best accomplished. I'll leave it up to Joe whether I should
(re)simplify the patch. I could remove the new
"WARN("UNDOCUMENTED_DT_STRING"," stuff, but once I'm doing the VID/PID
parsing, that's really trivial, so *shrug*.

Brian