Dear Eric Nelson, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > As I mentioned, the customer requesting the feature has a regulatory > requirement any time __code__ changes. They have interpreted boot loader > scripts as being executable, so they have to write checks if the script > changes, but not if "data" changes. They interpret a file containing a > variable as data.
Hm... If we think this to a logical end that would mean that you have to disable the setenv command completely, as any variable can in fact contain a sequence of commands that might get run, thus environment data should be treated as code ;-) > > I think I will reject your patch. > > > That's reasonable. I don't mind carrying the patch around for this customer, > and you're the one preventing U-Boot from becoming bloated over time. > > I appreciate all of your efforts. Thanks. 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: [email protected] A person who is more than casually interested in computers should be well schooled in machine language, since it is a fundamental part of a computer. -- Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
