On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 11:11:40PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Tom, > > In message <20141104220213.GN15133@bill-the-cat> you wrote: > > > > > Hm.... is there a way to determine in advance where we are passing a > > > number as argument [see "common/cmd_fdt.c" lines 260ff] ? > > > > The problem is that 'fdt set ... <decimal>' is valid and 'fdt set ... > > <0xhex>' is valid (as it 'fdt set ... string'). What I'm saying is that > > we should think of it as 'fdt set <input to DT>' and within <input to > > DT> we assume DT conventions, not U-Boot conventions. > > Yes, I fully understand what you mean. I just wonder if there is a > user-friendly way to prevent such errors. > > I think we should at least document this behaviour - both in the help > message for this command, and in the manual.
I think this is a documentation (readme and command help) only thing. -- Tom
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