
5 Oct
2006
5 Oct
'06
5:57 p.m.
In message 200609201042.12600.laurent.pinchart@tbox.biz you wrote:
load-from-disk commands set the fileaddr and filesize environment variables upon completion. This patch adds the same functionality for load-from-network commands (BOOTP, TFTP, NFS, ...).
I reject your patch, as it is redundant.
The fileaddr environment variable is set to the address at which the file has
This is redundant. The information is already available in the loadaddr environment variable.
been loaded. The filesize environment variable is set to the size of the file in bytes.
This is redundant. The filesize variable already gets set by the current code.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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