[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 01/13] Use 'U-Boot' instead of 'U-boot' in CONFIG_BOOTP_VCI_STRING

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Mar 2 23:14:49 CET 2015


Hi Tom,

On 2 March 2015 at 06:59, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 09:33:27AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
>
>> This string seems wrong - U-Boot is normally written with a capital B.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
> But it's in the wild and thus in various dhcpd config files such as:
> ...
> } elsif substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 17) = "AM335x U-Boot SPL" {
>   filename "am335x/u-boot.img";
> ...
>
> in mine for am335x.  So "U-boot" exists in other peoples file and thus
> we can't really go off and change it.  NAK, sorry.

OK, I wondered if someone was going to say that. It's a shame it isn't
case-insensitive!

Regards,
Simon


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