[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] Add option -r to env import to allow import of text files with CRLF as line endings

[Robert Nelson]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 08/14/2014 02:25 AM, Alexander Holler wrote:
>>
>> Am 31.07.2014 21:57, schrieb Stephen Warren:
>>
>>> Huh, I do see that now. I must have been looking at the content of
>>> common/cmd_nvedit.c from the wrong branch, which didn't include that
>>> patch. I could have sworn I checked git history too, but evidently not.
>>> It is indeed clearly there right before the patches which use it. Sorry
>>> for the noise.
>>
>>
>> As I've just remembered where I did see your name before, the config for
>> the rpi (as found in 2004.04) misses the uenvcmd. That's necessary to
>> execute commands when using uEnv.txt.
>>
>> It's easily done with something like the following:
>>
>>                                 "env import -t -r $loadaddr $filesize;" \
>>                                 "if test -n \"$uenvcmd\"; then " \
>>                                         "echo \"Running uenvcmd ...\";" \
>>                                         "run uenvcmd;" \
>>                                 "fi;" \
>
>
> My intention was that uEnv.txt be used to set up environment variables, not
> to allow its use for custom scripts.

The check for if uenvcmd is set then run uenvcmd syntax, should really
be pushed into the distro default stuff.  As that syntax is used by
default for a lot of different targets in u-boot.  Most users who deal
with u-boot (even if they don't want to) seem to understand it.

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/