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fdtdump: Discourage use of fdtdump

fdtdump is, and always has been, a quick-and-dirty debugging tool.  However
I keep getting reports of people using it for real work.  For production
decompiling of a dtb, dtc in -I dtb -O dts mode is the right tool. In the
hopes of getting that message out there, add a warning message to fdtdump
to discourage its use.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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David Gibson 8 years ago
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fdtdump.c

@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) @@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
bool scan = false;
off_t len;

fprintf(stderr, "\n"
"**** fdtdump is a low-level debugging tool, not meant for general use.\n"
"**** If you want to decompile a dtb, you probably want\n"
"**** dtc -I dtb -O dts <filename>\n\n"
);
while ((opt = util_getopt_long()) != EOF) {
switch (opt) {
case_USAGE_COMMON_FLAGS

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