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

On 8/20/2012 2:37 AM, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:

Srinivas KANDAGATLA wrote:

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But assuming that this really is the best approach, then it would make
sense for --strip-disabled to leave this node in the dtb, because
otherwise there would be no way to re-enable it.

--strip-disabled should still get rid for nodes marked as failed
as-well, because fail means something serious and un-recoverable.

Well, I don't know if that's true.  Does status=fail really mean 
unrecoverable?

My intention when I first conceived of the status property is that
"fail" means that something has determined that the device is not
working properly and the software does not know how to make it work.

That is distinct from "disabled", which means that the choice has been
made not to use the device.

In the modern world of SoC with physically-unconnected functional units,
perhaps a new value would be appropriate: status="unused".