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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] simplify bootm command
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:01:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080805130108.5F3C424851@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:16:36 +0200." <48983694.8000803@free.fr>

In message <48983694.8000803@free.fr> you wrote:
> 
> > That's why I think we should have an explicit "builtin" command, i. e.
> > command with the name "builtin" that will always run the corresponding
> > builtin command, no if there is a "command alias" or not - similar to
> > the bash command
> 
> ... and make sure that one can *never* define an environment variable 
> called 'builtin', and even remove any such definition if found in the 
> environment when reading it from persistent memory at boot.

No. That's where the "always" in my sentence above comes  into  play.
Even  if  you define such a variable I would just issue a warning and
then ignore it when it comes to command execution.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-05 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-05  3:51 [U-Boot-Users] simplify bootm command Kumar Gala
2008-08-05 10:02 ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-08-05 10:19   ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-08-05 10:38     ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-08-05 11:05       ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-08-05 11:16         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2008-08-05 13:01           ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2008-08-05 13:45             ` Albert ARIBAUD
2008-08-05 12:15         ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-08-05 13:59           ` Detlev Zundel
2008-08-05 12:56     ` Kumar Gala
2008-08-05 13:36       ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-08-05 13:59         ` Kumar Gala
2008-08-05 14:08         ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-08-05 14:32           ` [U-Boot-Users] simplify bootm command -- deprecated or removing functionality? Kumar Gala
2008-08-05 14:45             ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-08-05 14:48               ` Kumar Gala
2008-08-05 15:05         ` [U-Boot-Users] simplify bootm command Kumar Gala
2008-08-05 16:11           ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-08-05 16:27             ` Kumar Gala

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