[PATCH] env: Remove all dependencies for SYS_REDUNDAND_ENVIRONMENT

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed Jan 13 15:02:33 CET 2021


On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 01:26:27PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:

> CONFIG_SYS_REDUNDAND_ENVIRONMENT is changing in env_internal.h how u-boot
> works with variables. struct environment_s has one byte flags property
> which also affects ENV_SIZE macro.
> 
> I have reached the case where CONFIG_ENV_IS_NOWHERE is default setup
> but custom scripts can be designed in a way that u-boot is asked to
> import/export variables from/to file which can be in certain format.
> That's why also for this configuration make sense to enable
> CONFIG_SYS_REDUNDAND_ENVIRONMENT because it depends on environment file
> format.
> 
> The patch is removing dependency on this configuration to support selecting
> environment file format without any specific dependency where variables are
> stored.

Are you importing a binary of the environment in, which was generated
with redundant env set, is what the problem is?

-- 
Tom
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