From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 16:04:18 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Fix number base handling of "load" command In-Reply-To: <1381000045-5938-1-git-send-email-wd@denx.de> References: <1380901758-30360-1-git-send-email-trini@ti.com> <1381000045-5938-1-git-send-email-wd@denx.de> Message-ID: <20131007200418.GV15917@bill-the-cat> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 09:07:25PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > A documented, almost all U-Boot commands expect numbers to be entered > in hexadecimal input format. (Exception: for historical reasons, the > "sleep" command takes its argument in decimal input format.) > > This rule was broken for the "load" command; for details please see > especially commits 045fa1e "fs: add filesystem switch libary, > implement ls and fsload commands" and 3f83c87 "fs: fix number base > behaviour change in fatload/ext*load". In the result, the load > command would always require an explicit "0x" prefix for regular > (i. e. base 16 formatted) input. > > Change this to use the standard notation of base 16 input format. > While strictly speaking this is a change of the user interface, we > hope that it will not cause trouble. Stephen Warren comments (see > [1]): > > I suppose you can change the behaviour if you want; anyone > writing "0x..." for their values presumably won't be > affected, and if people really do assume all values in U-Boot > are in hex, presumably nobody currently relies upon using > non-prefixed values with the generic load command, since it > doesn't work like that right now. > > [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/171172 > > Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk > cc: Tom Rini , u-boot at lists.denx.de > cc: Stephen Warren Manually correcting the commit message typo, applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: