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

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

David Gibson wrote:

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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