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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 11:02:51 -0600
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 08/14] test/py: Add an option to execute a
 string containing a command
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On 07/03/2016 09:40 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> It is sometimes inconvenient to convert a string into a list for execution
> with run_and_log(). Provide a helper function to do this.

> diff --git a/test/py/u_boot_utils.py b/test/py/u_boot_utils.py

> +def cmd(u_boot_console, cmd_str):

"cmd" seems very generic and doesn't give any clue what it does. How 
about extending the existing function name to e.g. "run_and_log_str"?