[DTC] small ftdump cleanup patch

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Fri Jan 4 10:25:20 EST 2008


On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:40:57AM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Here is a small patch to clean up the usage info and the error returns
> for ftdump -- not sure what the future holds for ftdump vs. simply using
> "dtc -I dtb -O dts someblob.dtb" ...

I expect ftdump to stay around for the forseeable future as a
hacking/debugging tool; the idea is that it will be able to tell you
at least something about a malformed or corrupted dtb, whereas dtc is
likely to choke before producing any output.  Any non-debugging use is
likely a mistake, though.

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