[RFC:PATCH dtc-1.3.0] dtc: Add --strip-disabled option to dtc.

Tabi Timur-B04825 B04825 at freescale.com
Fri Aug 17 22:16:51 EST 2012


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?

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale


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