[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] Allow newlines within command environment vars

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Simon Glass,

In message <CAPnjgZ1BMMrN-+bHFr9GcH-5wF4WSz_7Qa53C_cHPLEbL2ycqA at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
...
> >> > > The environment variables preboot, bootcmd and menucmd can hold a command
> >> > > to execute. This change permits these variables to have newlines so that
> >> > > they work the same as the 'source' command.
...
> >> The first patch is just a clean-up and should not change any behaviour.
> >> This second patch changes the behaviour of the named env variables.
> >
> > So which commit introduced the breakage, then?
>
> Which breakage are you referring to? The intent of these two patches
> is to add a new feature (proposed by Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc>
> who also provided a patch) on top of the command refactor series.
>
> Sorry, there is some confusion here but I'm not sure what it is.

Guess I'm confused.

I don't understand in which way the variables listed here (preboot,
bootcmd and menucmd) are special - actually all variables can hold
commands, that then can be executed using the "run" command.

If newline is a valid command separator (and I think it is), this
should work for _all_ variable.



Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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