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David Gibson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:03:37PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>> Hi David, Jon,
>>
>> Here is another fairly trivial patch for dtc.  It adds -h to get the 
>> usage message.  It adds -q (-qq/-qqq) to suppress warnings/errors.
>> It removes the -R option which is advertised but does nothing
>> useful.
> 
> NAK.  -R does do something that I believe is useful.

Hi David,

-R sets a local variable reservenum to the specified value.  Nobody uses 
reservenum, hence my conclusion that it does nothing useful.

Best regards,
gvb