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

Rasmus Villemoes ravi at prevas.dk
Wed Oct 30 22:34:01 CET 2024


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.

Rasmus Villemoes (3):
  cmd/nvedit.c: teach 'env default' to optionally keep runtime variables
  test: env: check that non-mentioned variables to "env default" are
    preserved
  test: env: add some test cases for new "env default -k" flag

 cmd/nvedit.c          |  8 ++++++--
 test/env/cmd_ut_env.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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