dtc: Generate useful error message for properties after subnodes

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Dec 5 10:27:04 EST 2007


On several occasions, I've accidentally put properties after subnodes
in a dts file.  I've then spent ages thinking that the resulting
syntax error was because of something else.

This patch arranges for this specific syntax error to generate a more
specific and useful error message.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Index: dtc/tests/prop-after-subnode.dts
===================================================================
--- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ dtc/tests/prop-after-subnode.dts	2007-12-05 10:24:52.000000000 +1100
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/dts-v1/;
+
+/ {
+	node1 {
+	};
+	prop;
+	node2 {
+	};
+};
Index: dtc/dtc-parser.y
===================================================================
--- dtc.orig/dtc-parser.y	2007-12-05 10:12:10.000000000 +1100
+++ dtc/dtc-parser.y	2007-12-05 10:18:26.000000000 +1100
@@ -276,6 +276,11 @@
 		{
 			$$ = chain_node($1, $2);
 		}
+	| subnode propdef
+		{
+			yyerror("syntax error: properties must precede subnodes\n");
+			YYERROR;
+		}
 	;
 
 subnode:

-- 
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				| _way_ _around_!
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