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From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] env: Add support for FS environment
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 15:02:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170128200249.GE22316@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1485334393-179182-4-git-send-email-fiach.antaw@uqconnect.edu.au>

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 06:53:13PM +1000, Fiach Antaw wrote:
> This patch adds support for fat/ext4-style environments on top of
> the FS api, allowing any filesystem to be used to store the u-boot
> environment. This implementation also support redundancy in the
> form of a secondary environment file on the same filesystem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fiach Antaw <fiach.antaw@uqconnect.edu.au>
> 
> ---
> 
>  README                       |  22 ++++++++
>  cmd/nvedit.c                 |   1 +
>  common/Makefile              |   1 +
>  common/env_fs.c              | 126 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/environment.h        |  16 ++++++
>  scripts/config_whitelist.txt |   5 ++
>  6 files changed, 171 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 common/env_fs.c

Functionally, I like this idea, it's a step in the right direction.  My
first question is, did you test this on some real hardware that's using
environment stored in a filesystem, on another media not listed here
(say SATA?) ?

Second, it's really, really, not a good idea to add more Kconfig options
to the whitelist.  Can you please take a look at starting to move the
env choices to Kconfig (I would assume ENV_IS_NOWHERE would be the
easiest to move) ?  Then we can add this there, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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      reply	other threads:[~2017-01-28 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-25  8:53 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] env: Add support for environments on arbitrary filesystems Fiach Antaw
2017-01-25  8:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] env: Add generic redundant environment implementation Fiach Antaw
2017-01-28 20:03   ` Tom Rini
2017-07-25  0:42   ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2017-01-25  8:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] env: Switch env_nand, env_mmc and env_ubi to env_import_redund Fiach Antaw
2017-01-28 20:02   ` Tom Rini
2017-07-25  0:42   ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2017-01-25  8:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] env: Add support for FS environment Fiach Antaw
2017-01-28 20:02   ` Tom Rini [this message]

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