Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] dt-bindings: kbuild: Add separate target/dependency for processed-schema.json

[Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>]

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On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 05:56:03PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> Running dtbs_check and dt_compatible_check targets really only depend
> on processed-schema.json, but the dependency is 'dt_binding_check'. That
> was sort worked around with the CHECK_DT_BINDING variable in order to
> skip some of the work that 'dt_binding_check' does. It still runs the
> full checks of the schemas which is not necessary and adds 10s of
> seconds to the build time. That's significant when checking only a few
> DTBs and with recent changes that have improved the validation time by
> 6-7x.
> 
> Add a new target, dt_binding_schema, which just builds
> processed-schema.json and can be used as the dependency for other
> targets. The scripts_dtc dependency isn't needed either as the examples
> aren't built for it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

Yoo, that's pretty nice. 20 seconds cut off my dtbs_check build time on
riscv with this change :) As you point out, when you're not checking all
that many it is pretty significant - 48 seconds before and 28 seconds now
Tested-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>

Thanks,
Conor.

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