Re: [dtc RFC PATCH] Enforce node name unit-address presence/absence

From: Olof Johansson
Date: Wed Sep 18 2013 - 16:41:36 EST


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ePAPR 1.1 section 2.2.1.1 "Node Name Requirements" specifies that any
> node that has a reg property must include a unit address in its name
> with value matching the first entry in its reg property. Conversely, if
> a node does not have a reg property, the node name must not include a
> unit address.
>
> Implement a check for this. The code doesn't validate the format of the
> unit address; ePAPR implies this may vary from binding to binding, so
> I'm not sure that it's possible to validate the value itself.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This depends on my previous patch "Ensure all tests have matching reg
> and unit address".
>
> Note that this patch should not yet be applied; it will cause many real-
> world *.dts files to fail to compile. Those need to be fixed first.
> However, if/when that happens, this patch may be useful.
> ---
> checks.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/checks.c b/checks.c
> index ee96a25..c80a055 100644
> --- a/checks.c
> +++ b/checks.c
> @@ -287,9 +287,25 @@ NODE_ERROR(node_name_chars, PROPNODECHARS "@");
> static void check_node_name_format(struct check *c, struct node *dt,
> struct node *node)
> {
> - if (strchr(get_unitname(node), '@'))
> + const char *unitname;
> + struct property *prop;
> +
> + unitname = get_unitname(node);
> +
> + if (strchr(unitname, '@'))
> FAIL(c, "Node %s has multiple '@' characters in name",
> node->fullpath);
> +
> + prop = get_property(node, "reg");
> + if (prop) {
> + if (!unitname[0])
> + FAIL(c, "Node %s has a reg property, but no unit name",
> + node->fullpath);
> + } else {
> + if (unitname[0])
> + FAIL(c, "Node %s has a unit name, but no reg property",
> + node->fullpath);

These checks are very useful, even though they might sort of cross
over the domain to what a dtc linter would do instead of the compiler.

Anyway, I think it'd be better to produce warnings than errors for
this. That way we could also merge it now while the trees are fixed
up.

Also, maybe warn for @0x<foo>, which is another unpreferred syntax, it
should just be @<foo> (with foo being in hex).


-Olof
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