Re: [PATCH 13/13] dtc: Merge the fragments of a dts file in main()

[Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>]

Hi David,

On Wed, 4 Nov 2026 17:51:41 +1100
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 06:08:03PM +0100, Herve Codina wrote:
> > On Sun,  1 Nov 2026 09:37:07 -0700
> > Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > We would like to run checks on each fragment of a dts file before it is
> > > merged, but that requires dt_from_source() to return the fragments
> > > unmerged, so that main() can decide what to do with them. At present
> > > they are merged at the end of the parse.  
> > 
> > Why running checks on each fragment instead of the dt where fragments are
> > merged ?  
> 
> This is part of the aim of the series.  Some checks make sense on an
> individual fragment, others don't.  Allowing both kinds lets us
> address several longstanding problems.
> 

To clarify this point, what kind of checks for individual fragment?
What kind of longstanding problems?

Can you give me details about them?

Maybe I've faced some of them in the support for addons implementation.

Best regards,
Hervé