[U-Boot] [PATCH] Ignore all Carriage Returns when importing an environment.

[Marek Vasut]

Dear Alexander Holler,

> Am 12.05.2012 18:08, schrieb Marek Vasut:
> > Dear Alexander Holler,
> > 
> >> Am 12.05.2012 16:46, schrieb Marek Vasut:
> >>> Dear Alexander Holler,
> >>> 
> >>>> Am 12.05.2012 08:17, schrieb Marek Vasut:
> >>>>> Dear Alexander Holler,
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> This is used for compatibility with text files which are
> >>>>>> using CRLF instead of LF as the end of a line.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Holler<holler at ahsoftware.de>
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Why don't you run the file trough dos2unix or tr -d '\r' ?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Because my files don't contain CRs. ;)
> >>> 
> >>> s/you/someone else/ :)
> >> 
> >> Try to explain a windows user that a text file should not contain
> >> carriage returns and how he can achieve that.
> >> 
> >> You'll do it once, maybe twice, than you will surrender. ;)
> > 
> > But you're fixing the problem at a wrong place, aren't you? Besides,
> > removing \r might harm some environments, don't you think?
> 
> No, there is no other layer between the user and that function.
> 
> Anyway, as already said, I don't care, just had this patch lying around
> a year and I finally surrendered to post it here (in favor of those
> users). But it seems I was right in not posting it. ;)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to this patch, nor I want to demotivate you 
in further submissions. I'm just trying to figure out if actually surrending to 
crappy software on one side is a good move on our side. I'd prefer to get more 
oppinions from other people actually, I don't want the guilt to fall on me :-)

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alexander

Best regards,
Marek Vasut