[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/8] hwconfig and some its users

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Kim Phillips,

In message <20090611105533.7aeec1ee.kim.phillips at freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> > The separator between options is ';', between sub-options is ','.
> > 
> > So that would be 'dr_usb:mode=host,phy_type=ulpi; esdhc".

...and that's still what I like most of the differnet formats
discussed so far.


> if you don't want to type, things like this are possible but they
> have to depend on the order given:

It's not only about not typing, it's also about being able to read it
easily.

> dr_usb.mode = host; .phy_type = ulpi; esdhc;
> 
> however when automating/scripting concatenation of them, it's useful
> to not have to depend on their order:
> 
> dr_usb.mode = host; esdhc; dr_usb.phy_type = ulpi;

I see no reason that we need to support such a format. In C, you also
cannot mix initializations of fields from different structures :-)

> What do you think?

'dr_usb:mode=host,phy_type=ulpi; esdhc" still looks reasonable to me.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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