[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/3] env: Provide programmatic equivalent to 'setenv -f'

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear James,

In message <0102016e8e614227-a8c99a21-6a99-4611-b510-a723bc021b52-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com> you wrote:
> Add env_force_set() to provide an equivalent to 'setenv -f' that can be
> used programmatically.

env_set_forced() ?

> -int env_set(const char *varname, const char *varvalue)
> +static int do_programmatic_env_set(const char *varname, const char *varvalue,
> +				   int env_flag)
>  {
>  	/* before import into hashtable */
>  	if (!(gd->flags & GD_FLG_ENV_READY))
>  		return 1;
>  
>  	if (!varvalue || varvalue[0] == '\0')
> -		return do_env_remove(varname, H_PROGRAMMATIC);
> +		return do_env_remove(varname, H_PROGRAMMATIC | env_flag);
> +
> +	return do_env_update(varname, varvalue, H_PROGRAMMATIC | env_flag);
> +}
> +
> +int env_set(const char *varname, const char *varvalue)
> +{
> +	return do_programmatic_env_set(varname, varvalue, 0);
> +}
>  
> -	return do_env_update(varname, varvalue, H_PROGRAMMATIC);
> +int env_force_set(const char *varname, const char *varvalue)
> +{
> +	return do_programmatic_env_set(varname, varvalue, H_FORCE);
>  }

You add another level of function nesting and add more lines of code
than if just coppying the 3 C statements.

If possible, please also try not to come up with so awfully long
names like do_programmatic_env_set() - hey, this is allprogrammatic
what we're coding here, isn;t it?


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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