From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:55:41 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC] env: Group environment variables In-Reply-To: <1257352452-11748-1-git-send-email-jschmoller@xes-inc.com> References: <1257352452-11748-1-git-send-email-jschmoller@xes-inc.com> Message-ID: <200911041255.42023.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Wednesday 04 November 2009 11:34:12 John Schmoller wrote: > This patch groups environment variables using a non-invasive protocol. > Grouping is achieved by setting a "grouping" variable to a string of > variables, and setting the master grouping variable, "env_groups" to > the list of these grouping variables. > > For instance, > setenv net ipaddr netmask gatewayip serverip > setenv boot bootcmd bootdelay bootargs > setenv env_groups net boot > > would print 4 variables grouped under net, 3 variables grouped under > boot, and the rest of the variables grouped under "other". If env_groups > is not defined, print behaves normally. > > Signed-off-by: John Schmoller > --- > I'm interesetd in seeing peoples opinions of this implementation of > grouping environment variables. My major concerns about this > implementation are my main concern is bloat. while i guess it would make nicer `printenv`, i'm not going to use it. so please put it behind a config option so it doesnt waste space on all boards. -mike -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20091104/6c19b3be/attachment.pgp