double quoted strings in env.txt files

[Holger Brunck]

Hi Simon,

> 
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2022 at 02:18, Holger Brunck
> <holger.brunck at hitachienergy.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I currently try to convert some boards to the new env.txt files and this works
> quite well so far.
> > But I encountered one problem which I am not sure how to solve it.
> >
> > If I  have some string in a Kconfig file defined like:
> > config KM_DEF_NETDEV
> >        string "Default Netdevice"
> >        default "eth0"
> >
> > When I use this config now in one of the env.txt files:
> > netdev=CONFIG_KM_DEF_NETDEV
> >
> > I end up with:
> > netdev="eth0"
> > formerly in the environment I had:
> > netdev=eth0
> >
> > So in this case I would like to strip away the double quoted string
> > and I don't see that there is a way to do so. Surely there would be
> > some workarounds to solve this but as I have this at several places
> > and I can imagine that this will hit others too, it might be good to think about a
> general way to solve this.
> > For example we could add a tag around these CONFIG options in such
> > cases which then can be parsed in the script processing the env.txt to
> > strip away the double quotes.
> >
> > Any ideas about this? Or is there already a way to solve this problem which I
> miss?
> 
> I am not sure how to solve this in general, since sometimes we need the quotes.

yes I agree that it is good that we can explicitly have them in the text file.

> But I will send a patch that can solve it for this particular case.
> 

ok great, I will give it a try then.

Best regards
Holger