On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Grant Likely <grant.lik...@secretlab.ca> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 4:59 AM, Arend van Spriel <ar...@broadcom.com> wrote: >> Let's see how many people go and scream if I say this: Too bad .dts files >> are not done using XML format as DT bindings could be described using XML >> Schema. > > Draft an example and show us how it would look! :-) There is > absolutely nothing preventing us from expressing a DT in XML format, > or even using XSLT to define DT schema while still using our current > .dts syntax. It would be trivial to do lossless translation between > .dts syntax and xml. > > The problem that I have with XML and XSLT is that it is very verbose > and not entirely friendly to mere-mortals. However, I'm more than > willing to be proved wrong on this point.
I considered this approach a while ago and discarded it. It would work but it is just too much of a Frankenstein monster. Much cleaner to modify dtc to take a schema as part of the compilation process. The schema language itself has no requirement to look like DTS syntax. Whoever wrote dtc probably has a favorite language that would be good for writing schemas in. > > g. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Jon Smirl jonsm...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/