[PATCH] efidebug: Introduce bootmgr command

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Ilias,

In message <YCPVvmnF7TKxreE2 at apalos.home> you wrote:
>
> > In this case, "debug" would just be a sub-command of the "efi"
> > command, with more sub-commands under efi (like bootmgr or such)
> > following, same as we did for example with "env" (where many
> > commands maintain backward compatibility, but here this was
> > necessary because these have been in use forever):
> > 
> > 	env print 	-> printenv
> > 	env save	-> saveenv
> > 	env set		-> setenv
> > 
>
> Yes, but it would still look a bit strange, because the efidebug command was
> overloaded in our case. So you could test capsules, set EFI bootmgr variables,
> dump EFI tables amongst other things. The saveenv & friends had a tightly
> defined scope already. 
> So that would require a lot of code to keep the convention running, but since 
> it's rarely used, I don't think it's worth the effort or the additional
> complexity (once again unless someone has a valid reason), hence my suggestion
> to define it properly while we still have time.

Indeed - if it was rarely used before, it makes a lot of sense to
break combined functionality into separate subcommands (probably
also with separate Kconfig options so you can select what you really
need only).

Thanks!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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