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From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] Add option -r to env import to allow import of text files with CRLF as line endings
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 09:00:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53DF2F73.5080002@ahsoftware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53DF2C9A.6080805@ahsoftware.de>

Am 04.08.2014 08:47, schrieb Alexander Holler:

> But it would not be really symmetric. The -r for "env import" makes "env
> import" eat both formats, which means it can be used almost always, but
> using -r with "env export" would be a decision which always would be
> wrong for many people.
>
> Of course, adding the possibility to export the environment in a
> system-foreign format (Assuming nobody boots windows using u-boot)
> doesn't really make a harm, it just adds the danger that people will use
> -r for "env export" because it is used for "env import" too, which most
> likely would be wrong for most usage scenarios.
>
> Anyway, I don't have any other objections agains a -r for "env export",
> maybe it could be added to the TODO-list which contains documentation
> for "env *" too. ;)

My slow brain (therefor this second message) now suggests to add e.g. a 
-w to "env export", where the -w would be mutually exclusive to -t. This 
would make it clear that it doesn't mean the same as '-t -r' for env 
import and that using -w means a decision which might be wrong.

Regards,

Alexander Holler

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-04  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-14 15:49 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] Add option -r to env import to allow import of text files with CRLF as line endings Alexander Holler
2014-07-14 15:49 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] " Alexander Holler
2014-07-22 19:23   ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2014-07-30 22:47   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH " Stephen Warren
2014-07-31 19:51     ` Tom Rini
2014-07-31 19:57       ` Stephen Warren
2014-08-14  8:25         ` Alexander Holler
2014-08-14 15:49           ` Stephen Warren
2014-08-14 18:41             ` Robert Nelson
2014-08-14 19:38               ` Tom Rini
2014-08-14 19:50               ` Stephen Warren
2014-08-14 20:53                 ` Tom Rini
2014-08-14 21:05                   ` Alexander Holler
2014-08-14 21:35                   ` Stephen Warren
2014-08-14 21:44                     ` Alexander Holler
2014-08-14 19:38             ` Alexander Holler
2014-08-14 19:51               ` Stephen Warren
2014-08-14 19:59                 ` Alexander Holler
2014-08-14 20:08                   ` Stephen Warren
2014-08-14 20:39                     ` Alexander Holler
2014-08-01 12:08   ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-08-02 21:09     ` Alexander Holler
2014-08-03 16:38       ` Alexander Holler
2014-08-03 17:51         ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-08-04  6:47           ` Alexander Holler
2014-08-04  7:00             ` Alexander Holler [this message]
2014-08-04 10:00             ` Måns Rullgård
2014-08-04 19:18               ` Alexander Holler
2014-08-06  6:43                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-08-06 10:02                   ` Alexander Holler
2014-08-06 10:28                     ` Alexander Holler
2014-08-06 10:44                     ` Måns Rullgård
2014-08-06 11:18                       ` Alexander Holler
2014-08-06 11:48                         ` Alexander Holler
2014-08-03 17:47       ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-07-14 15:49 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] omap3_beagle: handle import of environments in " Alexander Holler
2014-07-22 19:23   ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2014-07-14 15:49 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] am335x_evm: " Alexander Holler
2014-07-22 19:23   ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2014-07-14 15:49 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] rpi_b: " Alexander Holler
2014-07-22 19:23   ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini

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