Dear Wolfgang, On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 01:26:15PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Ilias, > > In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > > > The efidebug for boot options wasn't introduced that long ago and I don't > > think anyone uses it in production. If someone would want to have it > > backwards > > compatible, please shout and we'll see what we can do, but I'd strongly > > prefer > > replacing it overall. If we truly want backwards compatibility though we > > must keep > > efidebug, changing the name to something like 'efi debug' just for the name > > similarity wouldn't help much as it would break things regardless. > > In this case, "debug" would just be a sub-command of the "efi" > command, with more sub-commands under efi (like bootmgr or such) > following, same as we did for example with "env" (where many > commands maintain backward compatibility, but here this was > necessary because these have been in use forever): > > env print -> printenv > env save -> saveenv > env set -> setenv >
Yes, but it would still look a bit strange, because the efidebug command was overloaded in our case. So you could test capsules, set EFI bootmgr variables, dump EFI tables amongst other things. The saveenv & friends had a tightly defined scope already. So that would require a lot of code to keep the convention running, but since it's rarely used, I don't think it's worth the effort or the additional complexity (once again unless someone has a valid reason), hence my suggestion to define it properly while we still have time. > etc. > > Maybe a similar approach makes sense for "efi" (with or without > backward compatibility, as you like - after all, this is just a > little name space pollution ;-) : > > efi: > efi debug > efi bootmgr > efi ... > Exactly Thanks /Ilias > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > > -- > DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk > HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany > Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] > If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a > past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a > different reality system.
