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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Cc: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@lists.denx.de>,
	Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>,
	Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>,
	Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/7] env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 16:32:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3341802.1634308345@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211014122254.v6.4.Ie78bfbfca0d01d9cba501e127f446ec48e1f7afe@changeid>

Dear Simon Glass,

In message <20211014122254.v6.4.Ie78bfbfca0d01d9cba501e127f446ec48e1f7afe@changeid> you wrote:
> At present U-Boot environment variables, and thus scripts, are defined
> by CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS. It is painful to add large amounts of text
> to this file and dealing with quoting and newlines is harder than it
> should be. It would be better if we could just type the script into a
> text file and have it included by U-Boot.
>
> Add a feature that brings in a .env file associated with the board
> config, if present. To use it, create a file in a board/<vendor>/env
> directory called <board>.env (or common.env if you want the same
> environment for all boards).

Argh... did you bother to read my comments?  Apparently not.

Thus:

NAKed by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>


I really think your fixed filename proposal does not work well in
reality.  The file name should be Kconfig configurable. See [1]
for details.

[1] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2021-October/462668.html


Thanks.

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-15 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-14 18:22 [PATCH v6 0/7] env: Allow environment in text files Simon Glass
2021-10-14 18:22 ` [PATCH v6 1/7] binman: Allow timeout to occur in the image or its section Simon Glass
2021-10-14 18:22 ` [PATCH v6 2/7] sandbox: Drop distro_boot Simon Glass
2021-10-14 18:22 ` [PATCH v6 3/7] doc: Move environment documentation to rST Simon Glass
2021-10-14 18:22 ` [PATCH v6 4/7] env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file Simon Glass
2021-10-15 14:32   ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2021-10-15 15:15     ` Simon Glass
2021-10-18 11:58       ` Wolfgang Denk
2021-10-18 13:37         ` Tom Rini
2021-10-18 14:10           ` Wolfgang Denk
2021-10-18 14:24             ` Tom Rini
2021-10-19 10:33               ` Wolfgang Denk
2021-10-18 18:12             ` Simon Glass
2021-10-19 10:38               ` Wolfgang Denk
2021-10-18 18:12         ` Simon Glass
2021-10-19 10:46           ` Wolfgang Denk
2021-10-19 14:11             ` Simon Glass
2021-10-19 16:09               ` Wolfgang Denk
2021-10-19 16:14                 ` Simon Glass
2021-10-14 18:22 ` [PATCH v6 5/7] sandbox: Use a text-based environment Simon Glass
2021-10-14 18:22 ` [PATCH v6 6/7] doc: Improve environment documentation Simon Glass
2021-10-14 18:22 ` [PATCH v6 7/7] bootm: Tidy up use of autostart env var Simon Glass
2021-10-15 14:45   ` Wolfgang Denk
2021-10-24 19:53     ` Simon Glass

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