[U-Boot] recommended place to add some custom settings to u-boot environment?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Sep 14 16:31:47 CEST 2016


Dear Robert,

In message <alpine.LFD.2.20.1609140935240.5661 at ca624034.mitel.com> you wrote:
> 
> > It will not realy work.  "space-separated" is not good enough as a
> > space character is a legal part of the value of an environment
> > variable.  You would need to tweak the import code.
> 
>   but himport_r() explicitly takes a separator character, and i can
> guarantee the strings being "imported" have no embedded space
> characters in their values. so as long as that's the case, shouldn't
> himport_r() properly handle that given a separator of space?

Well, yes, but it sounds a bit fragile to me.  Experience tells me
that very soon someone _will_ use a space in a variable.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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