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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] u-boot: remove driver lookup loop from env_save()
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 12:49:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180711104950.7979324051B@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180711094838.zyczks6iksp772ir@flea>

Dear Maxime,

In message <20180711094838.zyczks6iksp772ir@flea> you wrote:
> 
> I don't really see a use-case for overriding wherever the environment
> at the user-level actually. At the board level, for redundancy or
> transition, yes, definitely, but we can already do that.

If the feature is available, use cases will spring into mind.

Assume you have a eMMC based system which can also boot from other
storage (say, SDCard), and you want to write the current content of
the eMMC environment to the alternative boot device.

Yes, there are usually alternative approaches to perform similar
actions, but an easy way to save lsewhere might be handy, especially
if it comes at low cost.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-11 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-10 12:57 [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] u-boot: remove driver lookup loop from env_save() Nicholas Faustini
2018-07-10 20:49 ` Simon Glass
2018-07-11  4:57   ` Simon Goldschmidt
2018-07-11  5:09   ` Simon Goldschmidt
2018-07-11  8:33     ` Nicholas
2018-07-11  9:48       ` Maxime Ripard
2018-07-11 10:01         ` Simon Goldschmidt
2018-07-11 10:44           ` Nicholas
2018-07-11 13:50             ` Maxime Ripard
2018-07-12  7:02               ` Simon Goldschmidt
2018-07-12  7:20                 ` Maxime Ripard
2018-07-17  4:48                   ` Simon Goldschmidt
2018-07-11 10:49         ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2018-07-11 13:47           ` Maxime Ripard
2018-07-11 13:54             ` Wolfgang Denk
2018-07-11  7:37   ` Lukasz Majewski

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