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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 14:21:33 -0500
Subject: [U-Boot] question about repetition of some u-boot commands
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On 08/09/2011 02:03 PM, Belisko Marek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just curious. Why some commands entered to u-boot are repeated after
> processing by pressing Enter key? Like tftp, print ....
> 
> Thanks for clarification,

It's useful for some commands like "md" that auto-advance.  It's not
useful (and often annoying) for most others.  There's a field in the
command descriptor that indicates whether autorepeat should be enabled
for that command, but a lot of commands set it that shouldn't.

-Scott