From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Gibson Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 1/3] libfdt: Add function to find regions in an FDT Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 00:12:36 +1000 Message-ID: <20140605141236.GA25412@voom.fritz.box> References: <1395500836-12735-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> <1395500836-12735-2-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> <20140502054014.GF6035@voom.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: devicetree-compiler-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: To: Simon Glass Cc: Devicetree Compiler , Jon Loeliger --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 09:12:55PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > Hi David, >=20 > On 1 May 2014 23:40, David Gibson wrote: > > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:13:51AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On 22 March 2014 08:07, Simon Glass wrote: > >> > Given a set of nodes and properties, find the regions of the device = tree > >> > which describe those parts. > >> > > >> > A test is provided which builds a tree while tracking where the regi= ons > >> > should be, then calls fdt_first/next_region() to make sure that it a= grees. > >> > > >> > Further tests will come as part of fdtgrep. > >> > > >> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass > >> > >> Have I sent this to the right place? Any comments? > > > > Sorry. I know you've resent this several times, and I've been > > procrastinating about it since forever. > > > > Basically, I'm just not convinced. For all your efforts to explain > > the rationale, it just seems like a really ad-hoc set of flags and > > conditions that doesn't seem to form a coherent whole. >=20 > Are you referring to fdtgrep or the new library function? I'd be happy > enough getting the library function to start with in if there isn't > much need for the grep utility. The library function primarily. > > From the lack of other responses, I'm assuming there's not really > > anyone else who sees it as a compelling feature either. >=20 > Is there normally a lot of mailing list traffic for new libfdt > features? This is used for verified boot in U-Boot for example. Hm, that's true I guess. --=20 David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTkHrTAAoJEGw4ysog2bOSId8QALAVUZrK6DQ7wAhtqf5IXfxq 4cpSqdyK6nYyBOWxNqCJB27lYXA5bZ9m3zyPKFpQCIFzA3RsuNnYMqrSRTctpLpf 5t/vh8n1wDTdcubyBXrSTRWAtwtnzXNNHbHP4waTTuIKm/mo4JjonLDl4hWID7aK TgJaUSerbSH9/m/ZlECLlOu0822bHirATW2tBnKcfyqk+QvmjkDJZl81sISsCEJk Dlt98XFyyXWdHGfuxq0uU135ZgYeE7Jdba/GMxVdBpqYgj6KbLe1k18XW6q/e/fa fv4W9TsrjS9amNX1zDHErrsC/vuJ0AiEYAndFlDdEy2vuvYEk5irf6g0JRn5SumP h5E1Q06eeHs9xwse2lAK1FJ9fDR0GYZSO1d7A5w2tukbDkqtmC5ogueBhVQ1fMn5 7xSZETc7ehinV7tcJL6T0vETRz8XEfIwCItOxHxwVssc3TR/51IiVT09QlvXBA88 Su/M9o79iUI71Y+7YOVDy7KaqthiyqCZYtPeaXOyXGL91ScigGRboqwLTqBo65F8 FZRPmRq76lPJhbNizv2I+0j+4rhX+5rRdOm+//iELQmJAknr6RQMINI61StXjM80 exA2JyryDMwBzPif3gpHAwY9loyea9O2OgqCr1iyppBPUiakNIV57bcCI1Ox5vKq OEl/vBjo3yguTIBBXyy8 =1tmd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree-compiler" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html