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

Srinivas KANDAGATLA srinivas.kandagatla at st.com
Sat Aug 18 00:19:31 EST 2012


On 17/08/12 13:16, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:
> 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?

If you know in advance that device on that SOC is broken, then I guess
"Fail"/"Failed" can be used in status property.

One user of this flag in kernel device trees is
./arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8313erdb.dts




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