Dear Kim Phillips, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > > Instead of extending buffer sizes just to be able to enter some > > incomrephensible looooong variable setting you should try and figure > > this variable (which I have been comprehending for years now), is > part of the default environment configuration for that board, and > many others - it's defined in the board config file.
Yes, I perfectly understand this. However, this is not exactly a good reson not to fix (or atl east improve) that code. > We need to enable reverting an env var to its original default > definition. Do we? We have not had that feature for over a decade and nobody ever really suffered from it. Now we have "env -f reset" for almost a year, and guess how many percent of the users even know about this command? And how many have ever actually used it yet? > Perhaps over time the nfsboot norm setting should be migrated to > something more modular in the board config files, but right now, > users are complaining about simply expecting to being able to type > two more characters on the command line. Then educate your users that a boot loader is a resource restricted environment, and that there at least 10 different ways to do what they want, at least 8 of them resulting in a much simpler and easier to comprehend environment setup. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
