Re: New 'make dtbs_check W=1' warnings

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Thu Apr 08 2021 - 23:38:03 EST




On 4/8/2021 8:08 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Greetings to all Arm platform maintainers,
>
> I've just gone through the DT merges I've received so far and, with a
> little help from Rob,
> managed to run 'make dtbs_check W=1' before and after, to see what
> warnings we get.
> The good news is that the number of warnings is going down, but
> unfortunately there
> is still an unmanageable amount of remaining warnings, and some new
> ones crept in.
>
> I'm still working on my tooling for this, to catch these better, but
> ideally I think we should
> try to not introduce new warnings. I think some platforms are already
> clean, and I did
> not see any new warnings for mvebu, samsung and broadcom. There were a lot of
> warnings from .dtsi files, and I probably did an incomplete job at
> deduplicating those.

There are definitively a ton of warnings for Broacom DTS files, a number
of those warnings exist because the bindings were not converted to YAML.
Rafal, do you think you could help me with taking care of the
BCM5301X/4908 warnings?
--
Florian