[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 2/2] env: re-add support for auto-completion

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Dec 17 21:51:22 CET 2010


Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <201012171535.08619.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > Why can we not collect the results and sort them like we do for "env
> > print" ?
> 
> hmm, i dont think the previous code did do any sorting.  it just relied on the 
> results of the env code being sorted already.  i also dont think there is any 

The old code did not sort the output of pirntenv either - but the now
code does.

> support in u-boot today for sorting ?  so i'd basically have to import 
> qsort(), and i didnt think the size trade off was worth while.

Guess how printenv sorts the entries?

See lib/qsort.c

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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