[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/7] env: handle special variables and selective env default

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sun Sep 2 13:59:24 CEST 2012


Dear Gerlando Falauto,

In message <1345803102-21110-1-git-send-email-gerlando.falauto at keymile.com> you wrote:
> This patchset modifies the handling of all the operations on the environment
> (set/import/default) so to unify handling of special variables.
> On top of that we implement a selective "env default".
> 
> A selective "env import" would imply a user API change and should therefore
> be discussed separately.
> 
> NOTE:
> The entire patchset generates an increase in code size of about 1200 bytes
> on a PowerPC target. 
> As much as I would like to get rid of the set_default_vars() function in 
> env_common.c, I have not found a nice way to do so.
> 
> Changes in the syntax (user API):
> - "env default" -f: override write-once variables, -a means all
> - display a warning when trying to set to default variables not
>   present in the default env.
> 
> Changes from v3:
> - rebased to current trunk (was not compilable)
> - removed compiler warnings
> - added an independent cosmetic patch on top of the series (from which only
>   a later patch would actually benefit)

In which way are these changes related to the code I checked in for
testing into the "env" branch?

Is this patch series supposed to replace this stuff?


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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