Re: [PATCH 04/18] dt-bindings: mtd: spi-nand: Convert spi-nand description file to yaml

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 04:09:32PM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> robh@kernel.org wrote on Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:14:47 -0500:
> 
> > On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:27:55 +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> > > Let's get rid of spi-nand.txt by converting it to yaml schema. While at
> > > converting this file, let's actually pull all the generic properties
> > > from nand-chip.yaml which might apply to a SPI-NAND chip.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
> > > ---
> > >  .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/spi-nand.txt      |  5 ----
> > >  .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/spi-nand.yaml     | 27 +++++++++++++++++++
> > >  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > >  delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/spi-nand.txt
> > >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/spi-nand.yaml
> > >   
> > 
> > My bot found errors running 'make DT_CHECKER_FLAGS=-m dt_binding_check'
> > on your patch (DT_CHECKER_FLAGS is new in v5.13):
> > 
> > yamllint warnings/errors:
> > 
> > dtschema/dtc warnings/errors:
> > Unknown file referenced: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/dtschema/schemas/mtd/nand-chip.yaml'
> > xargs: dt-doc-validate: exited with status 255; aborting
> > make[1]: *** Deleting file 'Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/snps,dw-apb-ssi.example.dt.yaml'
> > Unknown file referenced: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/dtschema/schemas/mtd/nand-chip.yaml'
> > make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.lib:385: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/snps,dw-apb-ssi.example.dt.yaml] Error 255
> > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > make: *** [Makefile:1441: dt_binding_check] Error 2
> 
> I am not able to reproduce this error and in general I don't understand
> it. There is no relationship between this change and
> snps,dw-apb-ssi.yaml. Also the fact that nand-chip-yaml do not exist,
> it was just created in the patch before so I wonder how much I should
> trust this error.

I think you can ignore this. The prior patch should have been applied, 
but looks like it wasn't. My script's patch applying logic is not what 
I'd call robust.

> Also, maybe I am not using the tools properly, but it is very hard to
> send correct bindings at the first try. Running make dt_binding_check
> takes ages, any change in one yaml file will recheck the entire data
> base and filtering out on a single yaml file is generally too
> restrictive and still prints unrelated errors of syntax on other files.

Do you set 'DT_SCHEMA_FILES'? That will check just the schema you set 
it to. You still need to not set it at the end because any schema could 
apply to any example, so we have to check everything.

Also using DT_SCHEMA_FILES should be a bit faster with what's queued for 
5.16.

> I don't know how much of this is actually expected and/or if someone is
> working on it.

Due to python startup times being slow, it turns out to generally be 
faster to not have make track changes and do things incrementally. 
That's why all the schema are checked at once (though sharded with 
xargs). So I'm not really sure there's much we can do. I've certainly 
investigated it.

Rob