On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 03:39, Detlev Zundel wrote: >> 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" > | ); > `----
ah, this makes things much more clear, thanks -mike _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
