Defining schemas for Device Tree

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Mon Jul 29 14:15:50 EDT 2013


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 02:21:52AM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
 
> e) What format should be used for Device Tree schema?
> 
> This is a non-trivial problem. Key criteria I can think of are as
> follows:

You may wish to think about this as a linter+checker (like
sparse/coverity, etc) and code the 'schema' in C code.

As you've noticed already there are many complex cases. Look at the
PCI bindings, for instance, the complexity of what needs to be valided
is very high.

Jason



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