Re: [PATCH 3/3] allow a second parameter to be the output file name

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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:11:23AM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> If there is more than one file name specified on the command line,
> assume it is the output file name.
> This allows to use a more intuitive cp-style command line syntax,
> which (together with the input type guessing) allows something like:
> $ dtc input.dts output.dtb
> (or the other way round) to cover the most common usage scenarios.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <osp@xxxxxxxxx>

Nack to this, sorry.

I'd prefer to model our command line on other compilers, and -o is a
more common convention there.

I would however, accept a patch to guess an output name based on input
name if -o is not specified, allowing the output name to be omitted
entirely in common cases.

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