[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 2/5] fs: implement infra-structure for an 'exists' function

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Stephen,

In message <52E6C6CC.7000604 at wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>
> > I understand and agree with your intentions, but I dislike to invent a
> > new, totally non-standard command.
> > 
> > In UNIX, we would use the "test" command for such purposes.  Would it
> > not make sense to implement this feature in a more compatible way?  we
> > have "test", soo, so we should be able to plug it in there?
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> I thought that "test -e mmc 0:1 /boot/boot.scr" was different enough
> from a regular Unix shell's single-argument path that it would look a
> little weird. Still, it works out fine, so I've sent V3 that implements
> this via test instead.

Yes, it looks weird, but unless we have a better device model and
abstraction for files this is probably the best we can get.

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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