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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/writing-schema.rst b/Documentation/devicetree/writing-schema.rst index f4a638072262..efcd5d21dc2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/writing-schema.rst +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/writing-schema.rst @@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ project can be installed with pip:: pip3 install git+https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema.git@master +Several executables (dt-doc-validate, dt-mk-schema, dt-validate) will be +installed. Ensure they are in your PATH (~/.local/bin by default). + dtc must also be built with YAML output support enabled. This requires that libyaml and its headers be installed on the host system. @@ -130,11 +133,13 @@ binding schema. All of the DT binding documents can be validated using the make dt_binding_check -In order to perform validation of DT source files, use the `dtbs_check` target:: +In order to perform validation of DT source files, use the ``dtbs_check`` target:: make dtbs_check -This will first run the `dt_binding_check` which generates the processed schema. +Note that ``dtbs_check`` will skip any binding schema files with errors. It is +necessary to use ``dt_binding_check`` to get all the validation errors in the +binding schema files. It is also possible to run checks with a single schema file by setting the ``DT_SCHEMA_FILES`` variable to a specific schema file. |