Re: [U-Boot-Users] improvement to setenv handling

In message 2D63750CB4594644B0372AC317B521CC5DB9C4@mtlexch04 you wrote:

While setting-up an OMAP 5912 OSK, I experienced funny behavior with U-Boot's setenv command. The cause was that I was using an invalid syntax with an equal sign, i.e. setenv variable=value instead of setenv variable value

This is not exactly invalid syntax. The first command is actually valid - it tries to delete the "variable=value" variable.

Would it be a fair limitation to impose that variable names can't contain an

Yes.

equal sign, and either accept my invalid syntax or report an error ?

Umm... actually this is what it already does: it accepts your syntax :-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk