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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] blank line repeats last command
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:59:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE1FD12.7080604@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ba63b520910231148r24112dc5m36556f5c9dd16314@mail.gmail.com>

Frank Svendsb?e wrote:
> I partly agree with David Collier on this matter. Before I discovered
> this was a feature,
> I was sure this was a bug, but I understand some of you reasoning..
> just not all. For instance,
> I can understand why it's handy when dumping memory, but what's the
> rationale behind
> having 'cp.b' repeating? It's annoying when writing large files to
> slow (NOR) flash.

Indeed it is.

IMHO, rather than select a few "dangerous" commands to exempt from autorepeat, 
it should be off for most commands and selectively enabled for a handful of 
commands where it's really useful (such as autoincrement dumps).

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-23 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-23 10:56 [U-Boot] blank line repeats last command David Collier
2009-10-23 11:26 ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-10-23 11:49   ` David Collier
2009-10-23 11:55     ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-10-23 18:48       ` Frank Svendsbøe
2009-10-23 18:59         ` Scott Wood [this message]
2009-10-23 19:27           ` Peter Tyser
2009-10-23 13:46 ` Wolfgang Denk

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