Re: [PATCH] kbuild: allow checking single device tree file

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 2:07 AM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 1:48 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:43 PM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 10:18 AM Dmitry Baryshkov
> > > <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Add support for testing single device tree file by running
> > > > 'make tree.dt.yaml', e.g. 'make ARCH=arm64 qcom/qrb5165-rb5.dt.yaml'.
> > > > This looks useful for checking idividual changes to dts files.
> > >
> > > typo
> > >
> > > I'd rather not expose .*.dt.yaml as I want to make checking not
> > > optional and I have some plans of integrating the schema checks into
> > > dtc which would eliminate .dt.yaml files. Instead, I think %.dtb
> > > targets should run the checks always.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Cc: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  Makefile | 4 ++++
> > > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > > > index 53d09c414635..b36a3d48eb68 100644
> > > > --- a/Makefile
> > > > +++ b/Makefile
> > > > @@ -1383,6 +1383,10 @@ ifneq ($(dtstree),)
> > > >  %.dtbo: include/config/kernel.release scripts_dtc
> > > >         $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(dtstree) $(dtstree)/$@
> > > >
> > > > +%.dt.yaml: include/config/kernel.release scripts_dtc
> > > > +       $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=Documentation/devicetree/bindings Documentation/devicetree/bindings/processed-schema.json
> > >
> > > I don't think we should expose this detail (processed-schema.json) to
> > > the top-level makefile. This will be built if 'dt_binding_check' is a
> > > dependency with CHECK_DTBS=y set.
> > >
> > > > +       $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(dtstree) $(dtstree)/$@ CHECK_DTBS=y
> > >
> > > CHECK_DTBS here doesn't work. It has to be exported.
> > >
> > > So here's my modified patch (%.dtbo should probably be included too,
> > > but I'm not yet sure how well the schema checks will work on them):
> > >
> > > 8<---------------------------------------------------------
> > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > > index 53d09c414635..a1e246956d65 100644
> > > --- a/Makefile
> > > +++ b/Makefile
> > > @@ -1377,12 +1377,18 @@ endif
> > >
> > >  ifneq ($(dtstree),)
> > >
> > > -%.dtb: include/config/kernel.release scripts_dtc
> > > +%.dtb: %.dt.yaml
> > >         $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(dtstree) $(dtstree)/$@
> > >
> > >  %.dtbo: include/config/kernel.release scripts_dtc
> > >         $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(dtstree) $(dtstree)/$@
> > >
> > > +ifneq ($(filter %.dtb, $(MAKECMDGOALS)),)
> > > +export CHECK_DTBS=y
> > > +endif
> > > +%.dt.yaml: dt_binding_check include/config/kernel.release scripts_dtc
> > > +       $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(dtstree) $(dtstree)/$@
> > > +
> >
> > I do not understand how this will work.
> >
> > 'make foo.dtb' will also create foo.dt.yaml
> > (that is, schema check is always run) ?
>
> Yes, that is my intent. As I mentioned above, I have some plans to
> integrate the schema checks into dtc which would eliminate .dt.yaml
> files. So I don't really want to add them as a user make target if we
> might remove it. Also, at some point, running the schema checks
> shouldn't be optional. We can't do that yet for 'dtbs' as there's a
> bunch of warnings. But for %.dtb targets, I don't think getting the
> warnings is a problem.
>
> Rob

OK, your plan is to perform schema-check
as a side-effect of dtb compilation.

The current dt-schema tool only works against yaml files.
Once it is integrated into DTC, will it be able to directly handle .dts files?


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada