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From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Ignore all Carriage Returns when importing an environment.
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 20:33:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FAEAD11.5090400@ahsoftware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201205121808.54802.marex@denx.de>

Am 12.05.2012 18:08, schrieb Marek Vasut:
> Dear Alexander Holler,
> 
>> Am 12.05.2012 16:46, schrieb Marek Vasut:
>>> Dear Alexander Holler,
>>>
>>>> Am 12.05.2012 08:17, schrieb Marek Vasut:
>>>>> Dear Alexander Holler,
>>>>>
>>>>>> This is used for compatibility with text files which are
>>>>>> using CRLF instead of LF as the end of a line.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Holler<holler@ahsoftware.de>
>>>>>
>>>>> Why don't you run the file trough dos2unix or tr -d '\r' ?
>>>>
>>>> Because my files don't contain CRs. ;)
>>>
>>> s/you/someone else/ :)
>>
>> Try to explain a windows user that a text file should not contain
>> carriage returns and how he can achieve that.
>>
>> You'll do it once, maybe twice, than you will surrender. ;)
> 
> But you're fixing the problem at a wrong place, aren't you? Besides, removing \r 
> might harm some environments, don't you think?

No, there is no other layer between the user and that function.

Anyway, as already said, I don't care, just had this patch lying around
a year and I finally surrendered to post it here (in favor of those
users). But it seems I was right in not posting it. ;)

Regards,

Alexander

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-12 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-11  7:14 [U-Boot] [PATCH] Ignore all Carriage Returns when importing an environment Alexander Holler
2012-05-11 19:09 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-05-12 14:22   ` Alexander Holler
2012-05-12 21:18     ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-05-13  8:07       ` Alexander Holler
2012-05-13  9:27         ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-05-12  6:17 ` Marek Vasut
2012-05-12 14:25   ` Alexander Holler
2012-05-12 14:46     ` Marek Vasut
2012-05-12 14:50       ` Alexander Holler
2012-05-12 16:08         ` Marek Vasut
2012-05-12 18:33           ` Alexander Holler [this message]
2012-05-12 18:37             ` Marek Vasut
2012-05-12 19:10               ` Alexander Holler
2012-05-12 21:21                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-05-13  7:43                   ` Alexander Holler
2012-05-12 21:19         ` Wolfgang Denk

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