On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 20:43 +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 11/05/2018 07:13 PM, Martyn Welch wrote:
> > Add in the ability to modify the distro boot filename. Whilst not
> > immediately useful in normal usage, it allows an alternative
> > configuration to be provided when other u-boot functionality is
> > used, such
> > as bootcount limit, to fallback to an alternative boot
> > configuration. In
> > this case we can follow the same boot path as for normal boot, just
> > using an alternatively named configuration file.
> > 
> > For example, by providing the following `altbootcmd` when bootcount
> > is in
> > use:
> > 
> > altbootcmd=setenv boot_extlinx_conf extlinux-rollback.conf; \
> >     run distro_bootcmd
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <[email protected]>
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > Changes in v2:
> > - Moving config variable from `boot_config` to `boot_extlinux_conf`
> > 
> >  include/config_distro_bootcmd.h | 10 +++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/config_distro_bootcmd.h
> > b/include/config_distro_bootcmd.h
> > index 373fee78a9..1e9f6cb31a 100644
> > --- a/include/config_distro_bootcmd.h
> > +++ b/include/config_distro_bootcmd.h
> > @@ -355,15 +355,19 @@
> >     "boot_script_dhcp=boot.scr.uimg\0" \
> >     BOOTENV_BOOT_TARGETS \
> >     \
> > +   "boot_extlinux_conf=extlinux.conf\0" \
> 
> 
> Why do you only put "extlinux.conf" into the new variable and not
> "extlinux/extlinux.conf" and call the variable boot_syslinux_conf.
> 
> Wouldn't this provide more flexibility?
> 

Sounds good to me.

Martyn

> Best regards
> 
> >     "boot_extlinux="                                          
> >         \
> >             "sysboot ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart}
> > any "    \
> > -                   "${scriptaddr}
> > ${prefix}extlinux/extlinux.conf\0" \
> > +                   "${scriptaddr}
> > "                                  \
> > +                   "${prefix}extlinux/${boot_extlinux_conf}\0
> > "       \
> >     \
> >     "scan_dev_for_extlinux="                                  
> >         \
> >             "if test -e ${devtype}
> > "                                  \
> >                             "${devnum}:${distro_bootpart}
> > "           \
> > -                           "${prefix}extlinux/extlinux.conf;
> > then "  \
> > -                   "echo Found
> > ${prefix}extlinux/extlinux.conf; "    \
> > +                           "${prefix}extlinux/${boot_extlinux
> > _conf}; " \
> > +                           "then
> > "                                   \
> > +                   "echo Found
> > "                                     \
> > +                           "${prefix}extlinux/${boot_extlinux
> > _conf}; " \
> >                     "run boot_extlinux;
> > "                             \
> >                     "echo SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...;
> > "             \
> >             "fi\0"                                            
> >         \
> > 
> 
> 
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