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

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:06:32AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On 08/20/2012 11:01 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> > Scott Wood wrote:
> >> The distinction between "disabled" and "fail" is useful when the OS
> >> knows how to enable a node (e.g. by manipulating muxing).
> > 
> > So a node that is marked as status=fail is not necessarily an
> > unrecoverable failure?
> 
> No, it's "disabled" that is not necessarily unrecoverable.

I'm not sure that "fail" is necessarily unrecoverable either, though I
do think it means that whatever attached the "fail" tag didn't know
how to recover it.

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