diff-ing two device tree

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 11:27:53AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:31:59AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > Do we have a utility that can diff two device trees.  What I'm
> > looking for is something that has some context awareness.  It can
> > deal with (p)handle values being different, properties in a node in
> > different order, etc.
> 
> I hacked something together which sorts the two trees and then diffs
> the output, but that is rather a hack.

You mean like the "dtdiff" script that's in the dtc repo...

>  I don't think anyone has put
> together a context sensitive dt diff tool.

What would you envisage this tool doing?

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