[PATCH v3 2/3] dt-bindings: wire style checker into dt_binding_check
From: Daniel Golle
Date: Sun May 10 2026 - 19:59:36 EST
Run dt-check-style as part of dt_binding_check_one. The recipe wraps
the tool with scripts/jobserver-exec so worker count follows the GNU
make jobserver -- `make -j N dt_binding_check` constrains the checker
to N workers rather than spawning one per CPU.
Default mode (relaxed) is zero-violation on the current tree, so this
does not introduce new warnings into make dt_binding_check. Stricter
rules are available via --mode=strict (eg. for use by checkpatch.pl in
a future series).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes since v2:
- use Kbuild's $(tmp-target) instead of mktemp so build output
stays inside the build folder (Nathan)
- collapse the conditional cleanup tail into the familiar
"&& touch $@ || true" pattern, matching cmd_chk_bindings;
keeps future warnings non-fatal (Rob, Nathan)
- retained the explicit $(PYTHON3) prefix (Rob asked why it
differs from the rest of this Makefile): per
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst "Script invocation",
in-tree scripts should be called through their interpreter so
the executable bit and shebang are not relied on and the
user's $(PYTHON3) override is respected. The neighbouring
recipes invoke their Python helpers directly because those
come from external packages (dtschema's dt-extract-*,
dt-check-compatible, dt-doc-validate), which is the case Rob
asked about and which sits outside that rule.
Changes since v1:
- dropped xargs -n200 -P$(nproc) sharding; single Python invocation
with file list via @argfile
- dropped `|| true`: relaxed mode is zero-output today
- wrapped under scripts/jobserver-exec so worker count follows the
make jobserver
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/Makefile | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/Makefile b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/Makefile
index 7b668f7fd400..df4c4e0da1dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/Makefile
@@ -46,6 +46,18 @@ quiet_cmd_chk_bindings = CHKDT $(src)
xargs -n200 -P$$(nproc) $(DT_DOC_CHECKER) -u $(src)) \
&& touch $@ || true
+DT_CHK_STYLE = $(srctree)/scripts/dtc/dt-check-style
+
+# Feed the file list to the checker via @argfile in a single Python
+# process so the ruamel.yaml import is paid once. scripts/jobserver-exec
+# claims slots from the GNU make jobserver and exposes the count via
+# $PARALLELISM, which dt-check-style picks up to size its worker pool.
+quiet_cmd_chk_style = STYLE $(src)
+ cmd_chk_style = $(find_cmd) > $(tmp-target) && \
+ $(PYTHON3) $(srctree)/scripts/jobserver-exec \
+ $(PYTHON3) $(DT_CHK_STYLE) @$(tmp-target) \
+ && touch $@ || true
+
quiet_cmd_mk_schema = SCHEMA $@
cmd_mk_schema = f=$$(mktemp) ; \
$(find_all_cmd) > $$f ; \
@@ -62,13 +74,16 @@ override DTC_FLAGS := \
$(obj)/processed-schema.json: $(DT_DOCS) check_dtschema_version FORCE
$(call if_changed,mk_schema)
-targets += .dt-binding.checked .yamllint.checked
+targets += .dt-binding.checked .yamllint.checked .dt-style.checked
$(obj)/.yamllint.checked: $(DT_DOCS) $(src)/.yamllint FORCE
$(if $(DT_SCHEMA_LINT),$(call if_changed,yamllint),)
$(obj)/.dt-binding.checked: $(DT_DOCS) FORCE
$(call if_changed,chk_bindings)
+$(obj)/.dt-style.checked: $(DT_DOCS) FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,chk_style)
+
always-y += processed-schema.json
targets += $(patsubst $(obj)/%,%, $(CHK_DT_EXAMPLES))
targets += $(patsubst $(obj)/%.dtb,%.dts, $(CHK_DT_EXAMPLES))
@@ -82,7 +97,7 @@ dt_compatible_check: $(obj)/processed-schema.json
$(Q)$(srctree)/scripts/dtc/dt-extract-compatibles $(srctree) | xargs dt-check-compatible -v -s $<
PHONY += dt_binding_check_one
-dt_binding_check_one: $(obj)/.dt-binding.checked $(obj)/.yamllint.checked
+dt_binding_check_one: $(obj)/.dt-binding.checked $(obj)/.yamllint.checked $(obj)/.dt-style.checked
PHONY += dt_binding_check
dt_binding_check: dt_binding_check_one $(CHK_DT_EXAMPLES)
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