Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933340Ab3GVVfA (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:35:00 -0400 Received: from jdl.com ([208.123.74.7]:44962 "EHLO jdl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932388Ab3GVVe6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:34:58 -0400 Message-Id: To: Tomasz Figa cc: "Chaiken, Alison" , Grant Likely , Wolfram Sang , Mark Rutland , Stephen Warren , Ian Campbell , Pawel Moll , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Rob Herring , Olof Johansson , Mark Brown , Linus Walleij Subject: Re: The future of DT binding maintainership In-reply-to: <1925583.R0td2pS6as@flatron> References: <2962401.WRRoYlXkRr@flatron> <60BA5429A0E1584BA3633194F6F993B502B21362@NA-MBX-03.mgc.mentorg.com> <1925583.R0td2pS6as@flatron> Comments: In-reply-to Tomasz Figa message dated "Mon, 22 Jul 2013 22:09:09 +0200." Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:34:49 -0500 From: Jon Loeliger X-Spam-Score: -0.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1590 Lines: 40 > > Is there a schema out there in the wild that exemplifies what you mean? > > Not really. The format of schemas is currently in design stage. I'm > currently rethinking some details of what I have in my mind. Give me some > more time and I will post an RFC to the ML with all that written down. ...and... > > The schema-check idea reminds me of the W3C HTML validators: > > > > http://validator.w3.org/ > > > > Since device-tree source looks a bit like XML (or maybe more like JSON), > > will be the schemas be similar in spirit to DTDs, and is it helpful to > > think of the validator in this spirit? Or will the checker be more > > like "gcc -Wall", since it will be invoked by a compiler? > > My idea is to implement compile time verification in dtc, so I guess it > will be more like the latter. Since dts is what dtc can already parse, my > plan is to keep the schemas in spirit to dts, just modifying/extending it > to allow specifying bindings with them, rather than static values. > > Best regards, > Tomasz It is possible to add some-damn XML DTD parsing and rule glomming even in DTC if that is what is wanted. I think it will be more an issue of expressability. That is, how can the desired style of rules be most eloquently expressed, internalized and applied? That will be the current challenge first. jdl -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/