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

[Alexander Holler]

Am 12.05.2012 20:37, schrieb 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 :-)

In the good old days (tm) with line printers and almost endless paper 
from dead trees, CRLF instead only LF as line endings in text files did 
made sense.

Regards,

Alexander