Re: [PATCH v10 3/9] env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file

2022-03-12 Thread Simon Glass
Hi Patrick, On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 04:20, Patrick DELAUNAY wrote: > > Hi Simon, > > On 10/22/21 05:08, Simon Glass wrote: > > At present U-Boot environment variables, and thus scripts, are defined > > by CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS. It is painful to add large amounts of text > > to this file and de

Re: [PATCH v10 3/9] env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file

2022-02-10 Thread Patrick DELAUNAY
Hi Simon, On 10/22/21 05:08, Simon Glass wrote: At present U-Boot environment variables, and thus scripts, are defined by CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS. It is painful to add large amounts of text to this file and dealing with quoting and newlines is harder than it should be. It would be better if we

Re: [PATCH v10 3/9] env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file

2021-11-13 Thread Simon Glass
Hi Daniel, On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 at 11:13, Daniel Golle wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 09:08:46PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > > At present U-Boot environment variables, and thus scripts, are defined > > by CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS. It is painful to add large amounts of text > > to this file an

Re: [PATCH v10 3/9] env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file

2021-11-12 Thread Daniel Golle
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 09:08:46PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > At present U-Boot environment variables, and thus scripts, are defined > by CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS. It is painful to add large amounts of text > to this file and dealing with quoting and newlines is harder than it > should be. It wou

Re: [PATCH v10 3/9] env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file

2021-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Tom, In message <20211022142912.GF3577824@bill-the-cat> you wrote: > > > However, '\' is also a legal character in a variable name (and > > doubled backslashes or apostrophes etc. are legal, too), so > > above line should actually set the environment variable "maximum\+" > > to "value". > >

Re: [PATCH v10 3/9] env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file

2021-10-22 Thread Tony Dinh
Hi all, My 2 cents. As a maintainer for some hobbyist downstream u-boots (tracking mainline) and some out-of-tree u-boots, I do lots of envs scripting. The most common scenario for me is to create an env by combining 2 or more strings. Examples, init_usb, init_sata, init_sata_usb and so on, i.e c

Re: [PATCH v10 3/9] env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file

2021-10-22 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:29:26AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Simon, > > In message > <20211021210847.v10.3.Ie78bfbfca0d01d9cba501e127f446ec48e1f7afe@changeid> you > wrote: > > At present U-Boot environment variables, and thus scripts, are defined > > by CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS. It is

Re: [PATCH v10 3/9] env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file

2021-10-22 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Simon, In message <20211021210847.v10.3.Ie78bfbfca0d01d9cba501e127f446ec48e1f7afe@changeid> you wrote: > At present U-Boot environment variables, and thus scripts, are defined > by CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS. It is painful to add large amounts of text > to this file and dealing with quoting

[PATCH v10 3/9] env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file

2021-10-21 Thread Simon Glass
At present U-Boot environment variables, and thus scripts, are defined by CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS. It is painful to add large amounts of text to this file and dealing with quoting and newlines is harder than it should be. It would be better if we could just type the script into a text file and ha