Hi Mike, > On Wednesday, July 06, 2011 06:36:00 Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> For consistency I would prefer to have all commands return the same >> type of information, i. e. either an error status (like we do with all >> other commands - any result values would then have to be passed as >> environment settings) > > going through the env seems a little wonky. i dont know of any other > commands > that do this, so i dont think there's any standard to work off of here ...
I believe Wolfgang means for example this: ,----[ common/cmd_setexpr.c ] | U_BOOT_CMD( | setexpr, 5, 0, do_setexpr, | "set environment variable as the result of eval expression", | "[.b, .w, .l] name value1 <op> value2\n" | " - set environment variable 'name' to the result of the evaluated\n" | " express specified by <op>. <op> can be &, |, ^, +, -, *, /, %\n" | " size argument is only meaningful if value1 and/or value2 are memory addresses" | ); `---- Cheers Detlev -- Als ich entführt wurde, begannen meine Eltern aktiv zu werden. Sie vermieteten mein Zimmer. -- Woody Allen -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: d...@denx.de _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot