[U-Boot] [PATCH] cmd_nvedit.c: setenv_hex must prefix hex with '0x'

[Stephen Warren]

On 10/04/2013 04:12 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Stephen,
> 
> In message <524F376C.7070703 at wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>>
>>> I think we should NAK your patch, and suggest to fix the problem by
>>> reverting commit 3f83c87 and making "load" default to hex input mode.
>>
>> Reverting 3f83c87 would do the opposite of what you want; it'd make
>> extload/fatload require 0x prefixes instead of assuming hex. Perhaps
>> what you want is a tweak to that patch so that the generic load/ls
>> commands always expect a hex value, rather than requiring the 0x prefix?
> 
> Well, that should be the result, yes.
> 
> You mean the extload/fatload commands have been broken before that?
> OK, eventually the bug was introduced before that.  BUt in any case
> it's a bug, and should be fixed.

extload/fatload were broken between the following two commits:

3f83c87 fs: fix number base behaviour change in fatload/ext*load
...
045fa1e fs: add filesystem switch libary, implement ls and fsload commands

(i.e. for about 50 commits)

The generic load command has been "broken" (by design...) since it was
introduced. I suppose you can change the behaviour if you want; anyone
writing "0x..." for their values presumably won't be affected, and if
people really do assume all values in U-Boot are in hex, presumably
nobody currently relies upon using non-prefixed values with the generic
load command, since it doesn't work like that right now.