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

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat Jul 27 16:03:09 EDT 2013


On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 16:01 -0400, jonsmirl at gmail.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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