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From: Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@comcast.net>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DTC: Improve options handling
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:35:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45FC8963.9080603@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070317231337.GA11017@localhost.localdomain>

David Gibson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:03:37PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>> Hi David, Jon,
>>
>> Here is another fairly trivial patch for dtc.  It adds -h to get the 
>> usage message.  It adds -q (-qq/-qqq) to suppress warnings/errors.
>> It removes the -R option which is advertised but does nothing
>> useful.
> 
> NAK.  -R does do something that I believe is useful.

Hi David,

-R sets a local variable reservenum to the specified value.  Nobody uses 
reservenum, hence my conclusion that it does nothing useful.

Best regards,
gvb

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-18  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-17 17:03 [PATCH] DTC: Improve options handling Jerry Van Baren
2007-03-17 23:13 ` David Gibson
2007-03-18  0:35   ` Jerry Van Baren [this message]
2007-03-18  1:51     ` David Gibson
2007-03-18 20:49   ` [PATCH] DTC: Improve options handling - respin Jerry Van Baren
2007-03-19 14:10     ` Jon Loeliger

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