On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:19:05PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:11:22PM -0500, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > Matt Sealey wrote:
> >> Josh Boyer wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:57:42AM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote:
> >>>> I just noticed (was told by an affiliate) that the DTC compiler
> >>>> tools shares a tool name "ftdump" with the Freetype project. I was
> >>>> doing a lazy packaging effort to get a few tools around so we can
> >>>> all be running the same version and build some custom kernel RPMs,
> >>>> and this came up.
> >>>>
> >>>> Wouldn't a better name be "fdtdump", do you think? It's usually not
> >>>> a fun idea to conflict with tools already on the system. A user
> >>>> may run "ftdump" and get the Freetype tool because of a simple
> >>>> mistake in paths or so.
> >>>>
> >>>> With regards to U-Boot proper, I would say the same is true of
> >>>> "mkimage" which conflicts with jigdo. In essence, while U-Boot is
> >>>> usually installed into a user's home directory (~/bin etc.) simple
> >>>> path mixups, going to root shell, using another box etc. means you
> >>>> may have multiple same-named tools on a system for various work,
> >>>> which do different things.
> >
> > Mkimage and ftdump are different audiences (OK, the same people but the
> > chairs are arranged differently ;-).
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > IMHO, the ftdump issue needs to be addressed at the DTC level (Jon
> > Loeliger and David Gibson). U-Boot (and the linux kernel) is being
> > driven by DTC.
>
> David has said before that ftdump is sort of a pointless debugging tool.
> Or at least that is what the Debian bug report referrenced as the reason
> from removing it from the Debian dtc package.
Yeah, I wouldn't suggest packaging ftdump. It's potentially useful
for debugging dtc itself, but if you want to dump a device tree "for
real", you can use "dtc -I dtb -O dts".
> Maybe we should just remove it entirely if it's not really going to be
> maintained long-term.
Hmm, perhaps. We should definitely remove it from the make install
target.
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