On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:11:19 +1000 David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi David, > 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. Fair enough, I will drop this patch then. Seems like: "dtc input.dts > output.dtb" will do the trick, too and it's just two characters more to type ;-) > > 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. I'd rather keep the stdout behaviour in this case, I find writing to unspecified filenames quite scary. Cheers, Andre. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree-compiler" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
