[PATCH 2/2] dt-bindings: Remove cases of 'allOf' containing a '$ref'

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Thu Apr 16 13:55:21 UTC 2020


On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 1:52 AM Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 19:55 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > json-schema versions draft7 and earlier have a weird behavior in that
> > any keywords combined with a '$ref' are ignored (silently). The correct
> > form was to put a '$ref' under an 'allOf'. This behavior is now changed
> > in the 2019-09 json-schema spec and '$ref' can be mixed with other
> > keywords. The json-schema library doesn't yet support this, but the
> > tooling now does a fixup for this and either way works.
> >
> > This has been a constant source of review comments, so let's change this
> > treewide so everyone copies the simpler syntax.
>
> This is a large change.
>
> Was this done manually or by some script?

Scripted with python ruamel yaml, but then I had to filter out all the
re-formatting (hence the first patch to cut down some of that).

> If it was done manually, how likely is it there are defects
> in the conversion?

Either way, the schemas still have to pass the meta-schema checks.

Rob


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