From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tabi Timur-B04825 Subject: Re: [RFC:PATCH dtc-1.3.0] dtc: Add --strip-disabled option to dtc. Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:16:51 +0000 Message-ID: <502E3632.70208@freescale.com> References: <1345034325-26656-1-git-send-email-srinivas.kandagatla@st.com> <20120817060415.GC29724@truffula.fritz.box> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120817060415.GC29724-W9XWwYn+TF0XU02nzanrWNbf9cGiqdzd@public.gmane.org> Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: <9C86A601991F044B8B3369E1C47B2EC7-725oAoX4OcF2GV6JINhBVAC/G2K4zDHf@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: David Gibson Cc: "mmarek-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org" , "devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org David Gibson wrote: > The name still isn't quite right - it doesn't just strip disabled > nodes but anything that isn't "okay", OF defines "failed" at least as > another possibility for the status property. I would say that staus=failed in a DTS is an error. It doesn't make any sense. How can you know before you boot the board whether a device has failed? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale