Re: [RFC:PATCH dtc-1.3.0] dtc: Add --strip-disabled option to dtc.

[David Gibson <dwg-8fk3Idey6ehBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 07:16:17AM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> On 8/20/2012 2:37 AM, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:
> > Srinivas KANDAGATLA wrote:
> >>>> But assuming that this really is the best approach, then it would make
> >>>> sense for --strip-disabled to leave this node in the dtb, because
> >>>> otherwise there would be no way to re-enable it.
> >> --strip-disabled should still get rid for nodes marked as failed
> >> as-well, because fail means something serious and un-recoverable.
> > 
> > Well, I don't know if that's true.  Does status=fail really mean 
> > unrecoverable?
> 
> My intention when I first conceived of the status property is that
> "fail" means that something has determined that the device is not
> working properly and the software does not know how to make it work.
> 
> That is distinct from "disabled", which means that the choice has been
> made not to use the device.
> 
> In the modern world of SoC with physically-unconnected functional units,
> perhaps a new value would be appropriate: status="unused".

Makes sense to me.

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