Re: [RFC PATCH 10/15] fdtdump: Handle unknown tags

Luca Ceresoli
2026-04-07T15:46:32Z

On Tue Apr 7, 2026 at 4:03 PM CEST, Herve Codina wrote:
> Hi Luca,
>
> On Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:15:09 +0200
> "Luca Ceresoli" <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue Feb 10, 2026 at 6:33 PM CET, Herve Codina wrote:
>> > The structured tag value definition introduced recently gives the
>> > ability to ignore unknown tags without any error when they are read.
>> >
>> > Handle those structured tag.
>>
>> How? This sentence is vague, what about:
>>
>> Allow dumping the unknown tags or not based on a command line flag.
>
> Hum indeed but I don't fully agree with your proposal.
>
> The patch adds support for structured tag in fdtdump and introduce the '-u'
> option to dump unknown tags which can be safely ignored.
>
> What do you think about:
>
> The structured tag value definition introduced recently gives the
> ability to ignore unknown tags without any error when they are read.
>
> Add support for those structured tags in fdtdump and introduce a
> command line option to dump unknown tags that should be ignored.

Looks way better now, thanks!

Luca

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