On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 12:28:18PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2017-11-17 17:32, Andreas J. Reichel wrote:
> > From: Andreas Reichel <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Global variables are removed to avoid a regression regarding the
> > robustness of the update mechanism.
> > 
> > Furthermore, an improvement to the 'setglobalstate' function of the API
> > is added to reduce unnecessary environment modifications and to add
> > further support to recover from usually non-occuring update states.
> 
> Err, you need to help me: Why do we still have a setglobalstate API when
> global vars are removed? Shouldn't that one go as well?
> 
That is okay :) The name 'globalstate' refers to ustate and was chosen
as such, because in case of failure, ALL environments are searched for
ustate == FAILED and revision == 0. That's why.

The setter only modifies environments that are marked as FAILED if
setting the state to OK. If setting the state to another value, only the
current environment is accessed.

Andreas
> Jan
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andreas Reichel <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Andreas Reichel (2):
> >   Remove global user variables
> >   ustate: Enhance API function to reset ustate
> > 
> >  docs/API.md                            | 23 ++++----------------
> >  docs/TOOLS.md                          |  2 +-
> >  env/env_api.c                          | 12 +++++++----
> >  env/env_api_fat.c                      | 39 
> > ----------------------------------
> >  include/ebgenv.h                       |  3 +--
> >  include/env_api.h                      |  2 --
> >  tools/tests/test_ebgenv_api_internal.c | 26 +----------------------
> >  7 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
> > 
> 

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