Locating syntax error in dts/dtsi files

Locating syntax error in dts/dtsi files

[Sachin Kamat]

Hi,

I was wondering if there is any way to locate the syntax error in
included .dtsi files (other than manually inspecting them).
In certain cases dtc only points at the line which includes the dtsi
file inside the dts file as the location of syntax (parsing error) and
does not pinpoint the line number inside the .dtsi file.

For e.g.
When a terminating brace and semicolon "};" was missing in
arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4.dtsi, dtc gave the following error when I
did 'make dtbs'

Error: arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4210-pinctrl.dtsi:17.1-2 syntax error
FATAL ERROR: Unable to parse input tree
make[1]: *** [arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4210-origen.dtb] Error 1
make: *** [dtbs] Error 2

In this case it doesn't even tell the actual file that has a problem.
-- 
With warm regards,
Sachin

Re: Locating syntax error in dts/dtsi files

[Grant Likely]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:42:40 +0530, Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if there is any way to locate the syntax error in
> included .dtsi files (other than manually inspecting them).
> In certain cases dtc only points at the line which includes the dtsi
> file inside the dts file as the location of syntax (parsing error) and
> does not pinpoint the line number inside the .dtsi file.

Unfortunately, not currently. There needs to be some work on the tools
to get this working.

g.