[U-Boot-Users] Delete all env vars except read onlys

[Markus Klotzbücher]

Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> writes:

> After a longish  discussion  with  Detlev  we  came  up  with  a  new
> proposal,  which  hopefully  is  acceptable  to all. We agreed that a
> command name like "clearenv" or "scrubenv" or similar (which  doesn't
> require  any  arguments) might be too dangerous for the unexperienced
> user why randomly types commands "just  to  see  what  happens".  For
> example,  even  if you type "erase" it will not do any damage because
> arguments are missing - but "erase all" will blow away most  of  your
> flash content without asking.

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> Would that be acceptable to everybody?

Sounds good!

Best regards

Markus Klotzbücher

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