Hi David, On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 7:04 PM, David Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:25:10AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote: >> Hi David, > [snip] >> > One useful extension of what you have now might be to add a "raw >> > binary" format. Not much use for humans, but could be handy for >> > scripts extracting blobs from the device tree. In fact, using the >> > same interpretation of existing printf() descriptors, that would >> > actually be equivalent to 'c'. >> >> Yes I was thinking about how to do that as it might be useful. I think >> 'c' makes perfect sense. Will add to the todo. > > Actually, on second thoughts using 'c' for this doesn't quite work. > For the other format specifiers, you will presumably have some sort of > separator between each repeat (newline, I'm guessing). True binary > output, obviously, doesn't want that.
There is a space between each repeat and a newline after each property printed. It makes sense to suppress the space for binary output and I think an option to flick this switch either way might be in order, too (even something to select a new separator char?). Something else for the todo once this patch set is in perhaps. I suppose we need to be a bit careful not to build out the pier too far until we have some pedestrian traffic. Did you see patch set 3? Regards, Simon > > -- > David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code > david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ > | _way_ _around_! > http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson > _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
