[U-Boot] [RFC, PATCH v4 04/16] env: flash: add U-Boot environment context support

AKASHI Takahiro takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Fri Jul 19 08:30:11 UTC 2019


On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 10:14:06AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear AKASHI Takahiro,
> 
> In message <20190717082525.891-5-takahiro.akashi at linaro.org> you wrote:
> > This patch shows how environment storage drivers should be modified
> > at the minimum to support contexts.
> 
> This commit message is misleading.  No part of this patch is related
> to contexts.  What it acually does is adding support for variable
> sized environment blocks.  The commit message should be fixed.

Please note that this patch (or even all the patches in this set)
are not intended to be merged as they are.
This is an RFC in order for me to determine if you agree with
the approach I take here or not. This is the primary goal.
The code itself is nothing but a help for your understandings
of my basic ideas.

> 
> Also this commit makes me wonder if you have tested your patches for
> bisectability.

Again, not.

Thanks,
-Takahiro Akashi

> it seems changes that belong to together (like
> making the envionment size variable) are split across patches.  This
> needs probably refacturing / resorting.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 
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