Re: integer lost format from dtb to dts

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 02:46:55AM +0000, Yuan, Linyu (NSB - CN/Shanghai) wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Gibson [mailto:david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2018 10:22 AM
> > To: Yuan, Linyu (NSB - CN/Shanghai)
> > Cc: Rob Herring; devicetree-spec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jon Loeliger; Devicetree
> > Compiler
> > Subject: Re: integer lost format from dtb to dts
> > 
> > > I do found some colleague in our company use coverted dts from dtb
> > > directly, which is not good.
> > 
> > Yes, that's not usually a good idea.  Think of dtb->dts conversion
> > like a decompile.  It can be useful for debugging, and sometimes as a
> > starting point for cleaning up new sources, but it's not generally
> > useful for a production process.
> 
> So no plan to add it in future and will not accept it even if someone try to
> extend dtb to support it ?

Not necessarily, but I'd need a pretty convincing reason to include
that code.

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