[U-Boot-Users] RFC: hidden environment variables

[Timur Tabi]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> If you don't want to break compatibility with  existing  systems  you
> ill  have  to  maintain a separate list anyway - either in the source
> code, or in the environment ;-)

Well, the point behind having hidden variables is that the source code which needs to use 
a hidden variable can just call _do_setenv() (or whatever) and have it set an environment 
variable that is hidden.  My preference would be that any variable that starts with a dot 
(.) is hidden.  That way, the source code doesn't really need to have a separate list.  It 
just names its variables with a dot.  The rest is automatic.



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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale