Wolfgang Denk schrieb:
> Dear Stefan Althoefer,
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>> From fdeee62f0902b25be1a2a6bf52fb714b0f4f9e59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Stefan Althoefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 14:17:08 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH] common: nvedit to protect additional ethernet addresses
>>
>> This adds "eth[0-9]+addr" to the protected
>> environment variables that can only be written once.
>>
>> Code for detecting protected variables was restructured.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Althoefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ...
>> @@ -181,18 +186,31 @@ int _do_setenv (int flag, int argc, char *argv[])
>> * Ethernet Address and serial# can be set only once,
>> * ver is readonly.
>> */
>> - if (
>> + protected = 0;
>> #ifdef CONFIG_HAS_UID
>> /* Allow serial# forced overwrite with 0xdeaf4add flag */
>> - ((strcmp (name, "serial#") == 0) && (flag != 0xdeaf4add)) ||
>> + if ((strcmp (name, "serial#") == 0) && (flag != 0xdeaf4add))
>> #else
>> - (strcmp (name, "serial#") == 0) ||
>> + if (strcmp (name, "serial#") == 0)
>> #endif
>> - ((strcmp (name, "ethaddr") == 0)
>> + protected = 1;
>
> Here we already know that the variable is "serial#", so it cannot be
> any of the "eth*addr" variables.
>
>> + if (strcmp (name, "ethaddr") == 0)
>> #if defined(CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE) && defined(CONFIG_ETHADDR)
>> - && (strcmp ((char
>> *)env_get_addr(oldval),MK_STR(CONFIG_ETHADDR)) != 0)
>> + /* Allow "ethaddr" overwrite to change pre-configured
>> address */
>> + if (strcmp ((char
>> *)env_get_addr(oldval),MK_STR(CONFIG_ETHADDR)) != 0)
>> #endif /* CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE && CONFIG_ETHADDR */
>> - ) ) {
>> + protected = 1;
>> +
>> + /* "eth[0-9]+addr" is always protected */
>> + if (strncmp (name, "eth", 3) == 0) {
>> + ethnum = simple_strtoul (name+3, &s, 10);
>> + if (s != name + 3)
>> + if (strcmp (s, "addr") == 0)
>> + protected = 1;
>> + }
>
> Then why do we continue to test for these impossible cases? It's just
> wasting CPU cycles.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
You argue that the code should have a couple of hard to read else cases?
--- Stefan
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