[U-Boot] [PATCH] Standardize bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot, dhcp, and nfs command descriptions

Peter Tyser ptyser at xes-inc.com
Tue Aug 26 19:16:18 CEST 2008


Hi Ben,

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 09:31 -0700, Ben Warren wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Peter Tyser wrote:
> > cmd_net.c command descriptions were updated to describe the optional
> > hostIPaddr argument.  The dhcp command help message was also updated
> > to more closely reflect the other commands in cmd_net.c
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser at xes-inc.com>
> > ---
> >   
> I'm too lazy to check if this is different from the patch that you sent 
> previously (8/13 or so).  I imagine you want this one applied and the 
> other discarded?

The content of this patch is identical to the previous patch sent on
8/13.  However, the email on 8/13's title included "[RFC]" and in it I
made the following comment:

"Not sure if "boot" is the proper word to use in the command definitions
since the downloaded images are only booted if "autostart=yes", and
the majority of board configs don't have autostart set to yes.
I'd vote for changing the descriptions to "load image via...".
If a new, more granular bootm command is in the works,
it seems like even less people will autoboot an image
directly before doing some additional bootm commands to prep
for booting an OS. Do others have an opinion?"

No one seemed to bite as far as changing the wording of the commands, so
I re-sent the same patch without the [RFC] and cleaned up the commit
message to make it a formal patch.  So you're right, this patch should
be applied and the previous one on 8/13 discarded.

Thanks,
Peter



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