Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Optionally enable schema checks for %.dtb targets

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

On 12/20/22 02:32, Rob Herring wrote:
> While not documented, schema checks for single dtb targets mostly work
> already by setting 'CHECK_DTBS=1'. However, the dependencies are not
> handled and it only works if 'make dt_bindings_check' was run first and
> generated processed-schema.json. In addition, changing a binding file
> doesn't cause the schema to be rebuilt and dtb to be revalidated.
> 
> Making this work turns out to be simple. Whenever CHECK_DTBS is set,
> make 'dt_binding_check' a 'dtbs_prepare' dependency.
> 
> I reimplemented here what Masahiro had originally come up with a while
> back.
> 
> Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> ---
>   Makefile | 5 ++++-
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 6aa709df6bde..a99d5c4de0fc 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1467,7 +1467,10 @@ dtbs_prepare: include/config/kernel.release scripts_dtc
>   
>   ifneq ($(filter dtbs_check, $(MAKECMDGOALS)),)
>   export CHECK_DTBS=y
> -dtbs: dt_binding_check
> +endif
> +
> +ifneq ($(CHECK_DTBS),)
> +dtbs_prepare: dt_binding_check
>   endif
>   
>   dtbs_check: dtbs

Tested-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>

Thank you!