From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:6f8:1178:4:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1XCQzt-00070X-W3 for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:20:38 +0000 Received: from dude.hi.pengutronix.de ([2001:6f8:1178:2:a236:9fff:fe00:814]) by metis.ext.pengutronix.de with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1XCQzQ-0003cV-KM for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:20:08 +0200 Received: from jbe by dude.hi.pengutronix.de with local (Exim 4.82_1-5b7a7c0-XX) (envelope-from ) id 1XCQzQ-0006zb-Ae for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:20:08 +0200 From: Juergen Borleis Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:20:03 +0200 Message-Id: <1406715606-6821-1-git-send-email-jbe@pengutronix.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "barebox" Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: envfs: provide an intentional way to ignore an existing external environment To: barebox@lists.infradead.org Some use cases are using the barebox's built-in environment only, but still provide an external environment store to save a modified environment (for development purposes for example). In this case barebox works as intended even if the external store is empty and thus invalid. But even if it is an intentional behavior, barebox emits an error message due to an invalid content in the external store (CRC error). Because this error message will confuse a new user (how to know if this error message is important or can be ignored?) and it is a bad style to ship intentionally working systems with error messages, the following change set adds an "empty environment" feature to barebox. This change set adds a new option to the saveenv command which will write an empty environment without content. But it will be marked as a placeholder and thus should be "ignored" and barebox falls back to its built-in default environment. With this feature we now get: - if the environment store is empty, we still see an error message and barebox still falls back to its built-in default environment - if the environment store contains the new placeholder environment, there will be no error message but barebox falls back to its built-in default environment as well ("intentional behaviour") - if the environment store contains a regular environment (modified compared to the built-in one) barebox will continue to use it and ignores its built-in default environment instead. Comments are welcome. Juergen _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox