[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] Add option -r to env import to allow import of text files with CRLF as line endings

Wolfgang Denk
2014-08-01T12:08:00Z

Dear Alexander Holler,

In message <1405352998-7707-2-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> you wrote:
> When this option is enabled, CRLF is treated like LF when importing environments
> from text files, which means CRs ('\r') in front of LFs ('\n') are just ignored.
>
> Drawback of enabling this option is that (maybe exported) variables which have
> a trailing CR in their content will get imported without that CR. But this
> drawback is very unlikely and the big advantage of letting Windows user create
> a *working* uEnv.txt too is likely more welcome.

Should we not, for reasons of symmetry, then also extend "env export"
by such a "-r" option?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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