[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 2/2] env: re-add support for auto-completion

Wolfgang Denk
2010-12-17T20:51:22Z

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <201012171535.08619.vapier@gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > Why can we not collect the results and sort them like we do for "env
> > print" ?
>
> hmm, i dont think the previous code did do any sorting. it just relied on the
> results of the env code being sorted already. i also dont think there is any

The old code did not sort the output of pirntenv either - but the now
code does.

> support in u-boot today for sorting ? so i'd basically have to import
> qsort(), and i didnt think the size trade off was worth while.

Guess how printenv sorts the entries?

See lib/qsort.c

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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