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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Cc: "U-Boot Mailing List" <u-boot@lists.denx.de>,
	"Tom Rini" <trini@konsulko.com>, "Bin Meng" <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>,
	"Joe Hershberger" <joe.hershberger@ni.com>,
	"Marek Behún" <marek.behun@nic.cz>,
	"Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] env: Allow environment files to use the C preprocessor
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:35:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1819808.1632141317@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210919125937.v4.4.Ie78bfbfca0d01d9cba501e127f446ec48e1f7afe@changeid>

Dear Simon,

In message <20210919125937.v4.4.Ie78bfbfca0d01d9cba501e127f446ec48e1f7afe@changeid> you wrote:
>
> +To add additional text to a variable you can use var+=value. This text is
> +merged into the variable during the make process and made available as a
> +single value to U-Boot.

Explained after use.  Move documentation to previous patch?

> +		# Deal with +=
> +		if (match(var, "(.*)[+]$", var_arr)) {
> +			var = var_arr[1]
> +			env = vars[var] env
> +		}


Hm...  this is (so far) a legal command:

	=> setenv foobar+ foo+=bar


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-20 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-19 18:59 [PATCH v4 0/5] env: Allow environment in text files Simon Glass
2021-09-19 18:59 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] sandbox: Drop distro_boot Simon Glass
2021-09-19 18:59 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] doc: Move environment documentation to rST Simon Glass
2021-09-20 12:18   ` Wolfgang Denk
2021-09-19 18:59 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file Simon Glass
2021-09-20 12:30   ` Wolfgang Denk
2021-09-19 18:59 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] env: Allow environment files to use the C preprocessor Simon Glass
2021-09-20 12:35   ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2021-09-19 18:59 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] sandbox: Use a text-based environment Simon Glass

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