• Rob Herring's avatar
    dt-bindings: Improve validation build error handling · 93512dad
    Rob Herring authored
    Schema errors can cause make to exit before useful information is
    printed. This leaves developers wondering what's wrong. It can be
    overcome passing '-k' to make, but that's not an obvious solution.
    There's 2 scenarios where this happens.
    
    When using DT_SCHEMA_FILES to validate with a single schema, any error
    in the schema results in processed-schema.yaml being empty causing a
    make error. The result is the specific errors in the schema are never
    shown because processed-schema.yaml is the first target built. Simply
    making processed-schema.yaml last in extra-y ensures the full schema
    validation with detailed error messages happen first.
    
    The 2nd problem is while schema errors are ignored for
    processed-schema.yaml, full validation of the schema still runs in
    parallel and any schema validation errors will still stop the build when
    running validation of dts files. The fix is to not add the schema
    examples to extra-y in this case. This means 'dtbs_check' is no longer a
    superset of 'dt_binding_check'. Update the documentation to make this
    clear.
    
    Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarJeffrey Hugo <jhugo@codeaurora.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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