On Wednesday 04 November 2009 13:17:12 John Schmoller wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:55 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 November 2009 11:34:12 John Schmoller wrote: > > > This patch groups environment variables using a non-invasive protocol. > > > Grouping is achieved by setting a "grouping" variable to a string of > > > variables, and setting the master grouping variable, "env_groups" to > > > the list of these grouping variables. > > > > > > For instance, > > > setenv net ipaddr netmask gatewayip serverip > > > setenv boot bootcmd bootdelay bootargs > > > setenv env_groups net boot > > > > > > would print 4 variables grouped under net, 3 variables grouped under > > > boot, and the rest of the variables grouped under "other". If > > > env_groups is not defined, print behaves normally. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: John Schmoller <jschmol...@xes-inc.com> > > > --- > > > I'm interesetd in seeing peoples opinions of this implementation of > > > grouping environment variables. My major concerns about this > > > implementation are > > > > my main concern is bloat. while i guess it would make nicer `printenv`, > > i'm not going to use it. so please put it behind a config option so it > > doesnt waste space on all boards. > > I can certainly do that. It is a requested feature on the U-Boot task > list[1], so I didn't think that was needed, but I'll do it if that's > what people want.
sure, i'm not saying people other than me dont want it, just that i dont think it's something you can call "core required functionality". Wolfgang's call of course, but i'd like to see it behind a CONFIG (preferably disabled by default). -mike
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