Dear Mike Frysinger, In message <200909091015.05454.vap...@gentoo.org> you wrote: > > > 2) "use ncb when possible" > > > > Here I really dislike the implementation of "when possible", which > > makes silent and undocumented assumptions about from which directory > > the script has to be run. I guess the "when possible" would almost > > always turn out to be false, so we might omit the patch alltogether, > > especially since it's also documented in "doc/README.NetConsole". > > > > If we add it, we should follow standard UNIX philosophy and assume > > that you set your PATH accordingly to reach the tools you want to use. > > since ncb is compiled whenever netconsole is enabled, and people typically > use > this script with netconsole enabled, "when possible" tends to be line up > fairly often. also, the broadcast aspect is pretty useful. i guess i could
Agreed. But the code is based on the assumption that your current directory when attaching to the console of a target is the U-Boot source directory. For me, this is definitely not always the case. I might as well have /tftpboot or solilar as cwd. > make it search PATH, but the idea was to have things "just work" rather than > forcing people to install random utils into their PATH. I rather have people intentionally install tools to some directory in their PATH or set PATH intentionally to some tool directory rather than have tools suddenly and mysteriously break just because I run them from a different location. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de You are in a maze of UUCP connections, all alike. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
