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From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] recommended place to add some custom settings to u-boot environment?
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:07:34 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1609141106590.6308@ca624034.mitel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160914143147.0DC69100BA3@atlas.denx.de>

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> Dear Robert,
>
> In message <alpine.LFD.2.20.1609140935240.5661@ca624034.mitel.com> you wrote:
> >
> > > It will not realy work.  "space-separated" is not good enough as a
> > > space character is a legal part of the value of an environment
> > > variable.  You would need to tweak the import code.
> >
> >   but himport_r() explicitly takes a separator character, and i can
> > guarantee the strings being "imported" have no embedded space
> > characters in their values. so as long as that's the case, shouldn't
> > himport_r() properly handle that given a separator of space?
>
> Well, yes, but it sounds a bit fragile to me.  Experience tells me
> that very soon someone _will_ use a space in a variable.

  in this case, no ... it's legacy info that will never, ever change
at this point.

rday

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-14 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-14  8:57 [U-Boot] recommended place to add some custom settings to u-boot environment? Robert P. J. Day
2016-09-14  9:17 ` Wolfgang Denk
2016-09-14  9:27   ` Robert P. J. Day
2016-09-14 12:58     ` Wolfgang Denk
2016-09-14 13:04       ` Robert P. J. Day
2016-09-14 13:33         ` Wolfgang Denk
2016-09-14 13:37           ` Robert P. J. Day
2016-09-14 14:31             ` Wolfgang Denk
2016-09-14 15:07               ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]

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