On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 12:31:38PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 at 06:43, Martin Schwan <m.sch...@phytec.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Simon,
> >
> > thanks for the review and sorry for my delayed reply.
> >
> > On Mon, 2025-04-14 at 05:32 -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > Hi Martin,
> > >
> > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 at 07:25, Martin Schwan <m.sch...@phytec.de>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Add a bootmeth driver which supports booting A/B system with RAUC
> > > > as
> > > > their update client.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Martin Schwan <m.sch...@phytec.de>
> > > > ---
> > > >  boot/Kconfig         |  11 ++
> > > >  boot/Makefile        |   1 +
> > > >  boot/bootmeth_rauc.c | 408
> > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  3 files changed, 420 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > This looks fine to me. Just some nits below.
> > >
> 
> [..]
> 
> > > > +
> > > > +       partitions = env_get("rauc_partitions");
> > > > +       if (!partitions)
> > > > +               return log_msg_ret("env", -ENOENT);
> > > > +       partitions_list = str_to_list(partitions);
> > > > +
> > > > +       slots = env_get("rauc_slots");
> > > > +       if (!slots)
> > > > +               return log_msg_ret("env", -ENOENT);
> > > > +       slots_list = str_to_list(slots);
> > > > +
> > > > +       boot_order = env_get("BOOT_ORDER");
> > >
> > > Environment variables should be in lower case.
> >
> > Unfortunately, we are bound to the naming RAUC uses for these
> > environment variables, which is upper case. See
> > https://rauc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/integration.html#set-up-u-boot-boot-script-for-rauc
> 
> Can't you change it, since you are introducing new support here?
> 
> If not, then you could perhaps set the env variables to lowercase when
> you find uppercase variables? I suppose that would require updating
> the client to do the same thing too?
> 
> It would be very confusing for a user to have upper-case variables for
> some things.

Simon, this is an unreasonable request. This is how RAUC has been
working and deployed for years and years. It would be a nightmare trying
to handle migration of existing deployments for an aesthetic change.

-- 
Tom

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