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From: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Add "source" command; prepare removal of "autoscr" command
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:37:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d4byf2xm.fsf@ohwell.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1238422888.9578.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Peter Tyser's message of "Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:21:28 -0500")

Hi,

> The changes look good to me.  2 comments below:
>
>> +/*
>> + * Keep for now for backward compatibility;
>> + * remove later when support for "autoscr" goes away.
>> + */
>> +U_BOOT_CMD(
>> +	autoscr, 2, 0,	do_source,
>> +	"run script from memory",
>> +	"[addr] - run script starting at addr"
>> +	" - A valid image header must be present\n"
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_FIT)
>> +	"For FIT format uImage addr must include subimage\n"
>> +	"unit name in the form of addr:<subimg_uname>\n"
>> +#endif
>> +);
>
> I'd vote to change autoscr's help messages to something letting end
> user's know that the command is deprecated and being replaced by the
> "source".  Eg something like:
>
> + autoscr, 2, 0, do_source,
> + "DEPRECATED - see 'source' command",
> + "DEPRECATED - see 'source' command"
>
> Most U-Boot user's are more likely to see this than the
> feature-removal-schedule.txt in the source code.

Actually I also like that, but if we head down this direction, then why
not go all the way and print a warning on executing autoscr?  Thinking
about it (and reflecting on how I interact with U-Boot), I fear that
even the help message will not get too much attention from people who
should get aware of the problem.

What do other people think about this?

Cheers
  Detlev

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-31  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-28 21:07 [U-Boot] [PATCH] Add "source" command; prepare removal of "autoscr" command Wolfgang Denk
2009-03-30 14:21 ` Peter Tyser
2009-03-31  9:37   ` Detlev Zundel [this message]
2009-03-31 10:31     ` Wolfgang Denk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-01 21:34 Wolfgang Denk
2009-04-03 20:02 ` Wolfgang Denk

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