From: "Luca Ceresoli" <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
To: "Herve Codina" <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
Cc: "David Gibson" <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
"Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>,
"Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzk@kernel.org>,
"Conor Dooley" <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
"Ayush Singh" <ayush@beagleboard.org>,
"Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
<devicetree-compiler@vger.kernel.org>,
<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<devicetree-spec@vger.kernel.org>,
"Hui Pu" <hui.pu@gehealthcare.com>,
"Ian Ray" <ian.ray@gehealthcare.com>,
"Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 10/15] fdtdump: Handle unknown tags
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:46:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DHN1FU9M67IT.3MKUA8VO3MHI5@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260407160345.5adad916@bootlin.com>
On Tue Apr 7, 2026 at 4:03 PM CEST, Herve Codina wrote:
> Hi Luca,
>
> On Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:15:09 +0200
> "Luca Ceresoli" <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue Feb 10, 2026 at 6:33 PM CET, Herve Codina wrote:
>> > The structured tag value definition introduced recently gives the
>> > ability to ignore unknown tags without any error when they are read.
>> >
>> > Handle those structured tag.
>>
>> How? This sentence is vague, what about:
>>
>> Allow dumping the unknown tags or not based on a command line flag.
>
> Hum indeed but I don't fully agree with your proposal.
>
> The patch adds support for structured tag in fdtdump and introduce the '-u'
> option to dump unknown tags which can be safely ignored.
>
> What do you think about:
>
> The structured tag value definition introduced recently gives the
> ability to ignore unknown tags without any error when they are read.
>
> Add support for those structured tags in fdtdump and introduce a
> command line option to dump unknown tags that should be ignored.
Looks way better now, thanks!
Luca
--
Luca Ceresoli, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-07 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-10 17:33 [RFC PATCH 00/15] Add support for structured tags and v18 dtb version Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 01/15] dtc: Use a consistent type for basenamelen Herve Codina
2026-02-13 6:14 ` David Gibson
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 02/15] fdtdump: Remove dtb version check Herve Codina
2026-02-14 2:12 ` David Gibson
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 03/15] fdtdump: Return an error code on wrong tag value Herve Codina
2026-02-23 5:38 ` David Gibson
2026-02-23 8:39 ` Herve Codina
2026-02-24 5:57 ` David Gibson
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 04/15] libfdt: fdt_rw: Introduce fdt_downgrade_version() Herve Codina
2026-02-24 6:09 ` David Gibson
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 05/15] libfdt: Introduce fdt_first_node() Herve Codina
2026-04-01 15:11 ` Luca Ceresoli
2026-04-03 7:07 ` Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 06/15] libfdt: Don't assume that a FDT_BEGIN_NODE tag is available at offset 0 Herve Codina
2026-04-01 15:11 ` Luca Ceresoli
2026-04-07 8:51 ` Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 07/15] libfdt: fdt_check_full: Handle FDT_NOP when FDT_END is expected Herve Codina
2026-03-04 10:08 ` David Gibson
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 08/15] tests: asm: Introduce treehdr_vers macro Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 09/15] Introduce structured tag value definition Herve Codina
2026-04-01 15:11 ` Luca Ceresoli
2026-04-07 11:42 ` Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 10/15] fdtdump: Handle unknown tags Herve Codina
2026-04-01 15:15 ` Luca Ceresoli
2026-04-07 14:03 ` Herve Codina
2026-04-07 15:46 ` Luca Ceresoli [this message]
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 11/15] flattree: " Herve Codina
2026-04-01 15:15 ` Luca Ceresoli
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 12/15] libfdt: Handle unknown tags in fdt_get_next() Herve Codina
2026-04-01 15:17 ` Luca Ceresoli
2026-04-07 14:29 ` Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 13/15] libfdt: Introduce fdt_ptr_offset_ Herve Codina
2026-04-01 15:18 ` Luca Ceresoli
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 14/15] libfdt: Handle unknown tags on dtb modifications Herve Codina
2026-04-01 15:18 ` Luca Ceresoli
2026-04-07 15:41 ` Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 15/15] Introduce v18 dtb version Herve Codina
2026-04-01 15:19 ` Luca Ceresoli
2026-04-07 16:44 ` Herve Codina
2026-04-08 7:55 ` Luca Ceresoli
2026-03-12 7:54 ` [RFC PATCH 00/15] Add support for structured tags and " Herve Codina
2026-03-12 10:21 ` David Gibson
2026-03-16 16:16 ` Herve Codina
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