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

Ben Warren biggerbadderben at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 22:30:32 CEST 2008


Peter Tyser wrote:
> 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.
>   
Good deal.  I'm hoping to get a few hours tonight to catch up.

regards,
Ben


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