Am 11.05.2012 21:09, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
Dear Alexander Holler,
In message1336720486-7424-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de you wrote:
This is used for compatibility with text files which are using CRLF instead of LF as the end of a line.
I don't think we should do this. If you have text files with CR-LF line endings, then please use external tools (like dos2unix) to filter these and bring them into the appropriate format.
I would like to put as little restrictions on the content of an environment variable as possible. I can see valid use for strings that contain a CR character.
I don't see any reasonable usage for carriage returns in imported environment variables, but I've seen many people from the windows camp struggling in writing small text files to set some environment variables (which mostly end up in the kernel cmdline). Especially because those CR's often will lead to obscure errors because almost nothing (in u-boot or linux) is able to handle them.
Anyway I don't really care, I just found it very user friendly to strip the carriage returns, especially for those embedded newbies which are in need to use some unnamed windows IDE.
So I've decided (after having that patch lying around for about a year) to finally post it.
Regards,
Alexander