Dear Philippe,
In message 992029351.2212296.1568047262683.JavaMail.zimbra@softathome.com you wrote:
I have severals layers in my boot chain, and I want to use bootcount in severals layers to manage boot issues. If severals layers use the same variable name (bootcount) and a boot issue happen, I can't find the layer that fails.
I can't understand your problem description, sorry.
So I propose to "customize" the bootcount variable name.
This makes no sense to me.
As it is "unique", I can't chain severals bootcount. That's why I propose an option to customize the bootcount name variable.
But that's the actual situation: there is only one boot count. Please keep in mind that this variable holds the number of boot attepmts since the last power-on that failed to successfully reach a specific "confirmation point" in your application (that, which is considered a complete, successfull boot of the whole system).
For this single task there can be only a single counter, or?
I know that it's a "corner case" and that you could prefer to avoid adding another option, that's why I've proposed this option as a RFC.
I do not see any practical use yet...
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk