[PATCH 0/3] teach 'env default' to optionally keep runtime variables

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Nov 15 15:21:01 CET 2024


Hi Rasmus,

On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 at 15:32, Rasmus Villemoes <ravi at prevas.dk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 30 2024, Rasmus Villemoes <ravi at prevas.dk> wrote:
>
> > Doing bringup of a board, part of my bootstrap logic is in U-Boot. So
> > when tweaking that logic, I was bitten by a previous completed
> > bootstrap having left a copy of the environment on the device, which
> > was imported and thus overrided the new logic.
> >
> > So I thought, "ok, I'll just make sure to put 'env default -a' as the
> > first part of the bootstrap logic so I'm not bitten again". Alas, my
> > logic also relies on certain variables that are set by C code
> > (e.g. for detecting board variant), and doing 'env default -a' also
> > eliminates those.
> >
> > Looking around, the hashtab code already supports a flag that does
> > exactly what I need, and exposing that is (morally) a one-liner.
> >

I didn't see the patch, but can you add a test?

Regards,
Simon


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