[U-Boot] question about repetition of some u-boot commands

Detlev Zundel dzu at denx.de
Wed Aug 10 12:52:00 CEST 2011


Hi Scott,

> On 08/09/2011 02:03 PM, Belisko Marek wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> just curious. Why some commands entered to u-boot are repeated after
>> processing by pressing Enter key? Like tftp, print ....
>> 
>> Thanks for clarification,
>
> It's useful for some commands like "md" that auto-advance.  It's not
> useful (and often annoying) for most others.  There's a field in the
> command descriptor that indicates whether autorepeat should be enabled
> for that command, but a lot of commands set it that shouldn't.

... patches welcome.

Cheers
  Detlev

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