[U-Boot] RFC: Alternative command name for 'tftpput'
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Mon May 22 21:48:46 UTC 2017
Hi Stefan,
On 22 May 2017 at 05:55, Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm stumbling again over a problem introduced with the "tftpput"
> command and its naming, as it breaks some of the old scripts that
> I and others still use. As you know, when this command is enabled
> (which I find quite useful from time to time), "tftp" can't be
> used any more as an shorthand for "tftpboot".
>
> What do others feel about this naming? Would it be acceptable, if
> I post a patch to rename this "tftpput" command into something
> else (e.g. netput, ethput, ...)? Or perhaps its possible to add
> an alias for the "tftpboot" command as "tftp", allowing the
> usage of all 3 commands:
>
> tftpboot: TFTP get
> tftp: TFTP get
> tftpput: TFTP put
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
Is it possible to make tftpput come last in the order? Or put in a
hack to check it in preference to tftpput? I'm not sure why tftp would
be selected before tftpb?
Regards,
Simon
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