From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Gibson Subject: Re: [RFC:PATCH dtc-1.3.0] dtc: Add --strip-disabled option to dtc. Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:10:38 +1000 Message-ID: <20120821001038.GI29724@truffula.fritz.box> References: <1345034325-26656-1-git-send-email-srinivas.kandagatla@st.com> <20120817060415.GC29724@truffula.fritz.box> <502E3632.70208@freescale.com> <502E52F3.7090404@st.com> <502E64F9.2020400@freescale.com> <5031F706.3050509@st.com> <50325ED4.2070403@freescale.com> <50325F60.9070106@freescale.com> <50326088.8060402@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50326088.8060402-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Sender: "devicetree-discuss" To: Scott Wood Cc: "mmarek-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org" , "devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org" , Timur Tabi List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:06:32AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > On 08/20/2012 11:01 AM, Timur Tabi wrote: > > Scott Wood wrote: > >> The distinction between "disabled" and "fail" is useful when the OS > >> knows how to enable a node (e.g. by manipulating muxing). > > > > So a node that is marked as status=fail is not necessarily an > > unrecoverable failure? > > No, it's "disabled" that is not necessarily unrecoverable. I'm not sure that "fail" is necessarily unrecoverable either, though I do think it means that whatever attached the "fail" tag didn't know how to recover it. -- 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