[U-Boot-Users] Delete all env vars except read onlys

Markus Klotzbücher
2008-02-15T17:12:12Z

Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> writes:

> After a longish discussion with Detlev we came up with a new
> proposal, which hopefully is acceptable to all. We agreed that a
> command name like "clearenv" or "scrubenv" or similar (which doesn't
> require any arguments) might be too dangerous for the unexperienced
> user why randomly types commands "just to see what happens". For
> example, even if you type "erase" it will not do any damage because
> arguments are missing - but "erase all" will blow away most of your
> flash content without asking.

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> Would that be acceptable to everybody?

Sounds good!

Best regards

Markus Klotzb?cher

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