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: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:37:49 +0000 Message-ID: <50322F9C.2070403@freescale.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5031F706.3050509-qxv4g6HH51o@public.gmane.org> Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: 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: "srinivas.kandagatla-qxv4g6HH51o@public.gmane.org" Cc: "mmarek-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org" , Wood Scott-B07421 , "devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org" , David Gibson List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org 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? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale