From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: where is tftp mounting documented in the source code?
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:11:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121121091128.GO10369@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1211200702001.26129@oneiric>
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:03:58AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:48:41AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > > perusing the wiki and ran across page on TFTP support:
> > > http://wiki.barebox.org/doku.php?id=filesystems:tftp which suggests:
> > >
> > > mount 192.168.1.1 tftp /mnt/tftp
> >
> > This was the original mount behaviour. This was recently changed to
> > mount -t fstype <ip> /dir, mainly to allow making the fstype option
> > optional for autodetecting the type. The wiki page is out of date
> > here. As a sidenote I brought back the old behaviour as a
> > compatibility option to not break old environments.
>
> so ... the wiki page should be updated to show both the old and new
> behaviour? and the "help mount" content should be extended as well?
> what's the proper fix here?
I intentionally did not document the old behaviour. I think the help
texts in the binary should be rather terse. In the wiki though it
shouldn't hurt to add a side note explaining the old behaviour along
with a "don't use it".
Sascha
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2012-11-19 14:48 Robert P. J. Day
2012-11-20 8:08 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-11-20 12:03 ` Robert P. J. Day
2012-11-21 9:11 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
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