From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [PATCH 11/11] bootm: Support string substitution in bootargs
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:19:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <312737.1603199990@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPnjgZ3gkCO6_DdQh3XJrsf9SdVa0v3pGuwejGBoDHPEijyRkg@mail.gmail.com>
Dear Simon,
In message <CAPnjgZ3gkCO6_DdQh3XJrsf9SdVa0v3pGuwejGBoDHPEijyRkg@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> I did wonder about the empty env var thing. IMO it would be nice to
> support empty variables, so we can distinguish between an empty one
> and a missing one.
What exactly is the use case for this that justifies the additional
code needed to implement this feature?
Please keep in mind that this is a boot loader, and we are not
attending a contest for feature-completeness.
[Non-random signature this time.]
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-20 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-19 13:55 [PATCH 00/11] bootm: Support substitions in bootargs and add tests Simon Glass
2020-10-19 13:55 ` [PATCH 01/11] env: Allow returning errors from hdelete_r() Simon Glass
2020-10-19 13:55 ` [PATCH 02/11] bootm: Add tests for fixup_silent_linux() Simon Glass
2020-10-19 13:55 ` [PATCH 03/11] bootm: Update fixup_silent_linux() to return an error Simon Glass
2020-10-19 13:55 ` [PATCH 04/11] bootm: Rename fixup_silent_linux() Simon Glass
2020-10-19 13:55 ` [PATCH 05/11] bootm: Add a bool parameter to bootm_process_cmdline_env() Simon Glass
2020-10-19 13:55 ` [PATCH 06/11] bootm: Use size rather than length for CONSOLE_ARG Simon Glass
2020-10-19 13:55 ` [PATCH 07/11] bootm: Split out bootargs environment reading / writing Simon Glass
2020-10-19 14:45 ` Wolfgang Denk
2020-10-20 19:12 ` Simon Glass
2020-10-21 7:02 ` Wolfgang Denk
2020-10-21 15:51 ` Simon Glass
2020-10-19 13:55 ` [PATCH 08/11] bootm: Update bootm_process_cmdline_env() to use flags Simon Glass
2020-10-19 13:56 ` [PATCH 09/11] bootm: Allow updating the bootargs in a buffer Simon Glass
2020-10-19 14:46 ` Wolfgang Denk
2020-10-20 19:12 ` Simon Glass
2020-10-21 6:57 ` Wolfgang Denk
2020-10-21 15:51 ` Simon Glass
2020-10-19 13:56 ` [PATCH 10/11] x86: zimage: Add silent-console processing Simon Glass
2020-10-19 13:56 ` [PATCH 11/11] bootm: Support string substitution in bootargs Simon Glass
2020-10-19 14:43 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2020-10-19 15:50 ` Simon Glass
2020-10-20 13:19 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2020-10-19 14:54 ` Wolfgang Denk
2020-10-19 15:47 ` Michael Walle
2020-10-19 15:52 ` Simon Glass
2020-10-20 13:26 ` Wolfgang Denk
2020-10-20 19:23 ` Simon Glass
2020-10-21 7:16 ` Wolfgang Denk
2020-10-21 15:51 ` Simon Glass
2020-10-22 12:32 ` Wolfgang Denk
2020-11-03 15:11 ` Simon Glass
2020-10-19 15:50 ` Simon Glass
2020-10-20 13:17 ` Wolfgang Denk
2020-10-20 19:23 ` Simon Glass
2020-10-19 14:39 ` [PATCH 00/11] bootm: Support substitions in bootargs and add tests Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-10-20 19:12 ` Simon Glass
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