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From: Juergen Borleis <jbe@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: envfs: provide an intentional way to ignore an existing external environment
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:03:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201407311003.11853.jbe@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140731074416.GR6146@pengutronix.de>

Hi Uwe,

On Thursday 31 July 2014 09:44:16 Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:33:02AM +0200, Juergen Borleis wrote:
> > Hi Uwe,
> >
> > On Thursday 31 July 2014 09:14:25 Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > Compared with storing the default environment in the external store the
> > > only difference is that you don't need to modify it if you change the
> > > internal one, right?
> >
> > This would also be an advantage of this new feature.
>
> The only one even?

No. Confusing error messages are gone and we can force the intended behaviour 
as well.

> > > I wonder what the targeted use case is.
> >
> > To use an external stored environment *only* for development purposes or
> > tests and to keep the possibility to do so.
>
> Doesn't make a warm and cosy feeling. Isn't it easier and more robust to
> just not tell barebox about the external storage at all and for the
> testing/development procedure do an explicit
>
> 	loadenv /dev/tralala

Developers are lazy... I'm sure they will not love you for this suggestion ;)

Regards,
Juergen

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-31  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-30 10:20 Juergen Borleis
2014-07-30 10:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Juergen Borleis
2014-07-30 10:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] saveenv: change API to be able to forward special flags into the envfs superblock Juergen Borleis
2014-07-30 10:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] saveenv: provide a zeroed/empty/ignore environment Juergen Borleis
2014-07-30 15:28 ` envfs: provide an intentional way to ignore an existing external environment Jan Lübbe
2014-07-30 21:09   ` Sascha Hauer
2014-07-31  7:14 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2014-07-31  7:33   ` Juergen Borleis
2014-07-31  7:44     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2014-07-31  8:03       ` Juergen Borleis [this message]
2014-08-06  3:56       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2014-08-06  7:04       ` Michael Olbrich
2014-08-06  7:28         ` Uwe Kleine-König
2014-08-06 10:41           ` Michael Olbrich

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