19 Jul
2019
19 Jul
'19
10:38 a.m.
Dear Takahiro,
In message 20190717082525.891-9-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org you wrote:
'flags' value of all the entries in hashtable should be preserved across save/load of U-Boot environment context. To hold such information in an exported file, its text format is now expanded as follows: name:attr=value<sp> ... \0
where "attr" must be a fixed-length(ENV_FLAGS_ATTR_MAX_LEN) string which complies with a existing format of ".flags" variable and used by env_attr_lookup().
Full NAK here. This breaks compatibility with exiting code. The colon is a legal character in variable names, so you cannot use it to introduce new meanings.
Please extend existing flag handling in a compatible way instead.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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