[RFC 00/15] Device Tree schemas and validation

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:54:50PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 03:54:20PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:

> > I would expect the schema to replace
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/* over time. I think the thing that
> > needs to be worked out here is how to add free form multi-line text.

> I'm not convinced that's a realistic goal.  As I see it, the
> fundamental difference between a binding document and a formal schema
> is that a binding defines both the syntax required of a node, and its
> semantics, whereas a schema defines only syntax - the semantics still
> need to be defined somewhere.

So long as the schema lets you include free form text to define the
semantics I'm not sure there's an incompatibility there - the same
document can cover both.
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