In message 02cc01c783a4$3a489920$01c4af0a@Glamdring you wrote:
Why do you need to separate something which NEVER is going to be written again?
I don't.
There is a cost involved with doing multiple programming steps and those should be minimized.
I never said anything about multiple programming steps. Please feel free to attach your hardware information block (or whatever you are going to call it) at the end of the U-Boot image (using "cat" or "dd" or similar) or insert it into some known to be unused area or ...
And still: The proposed patch will not do anything with network parameters It will allow people to generate whatever config variables outside U-boot.
Right. And this is something I consider a bad thing. The configura- tion of U-Boot shall be done in U-Boot, and visible to everybody who sees the U-Boot source code.
Last but not least, this is also a GPL issue.
How they use this, you will not be aware of so I really do not understand why you are against the patch.
Just because of this: because I am not aware what people insert into GPLed code.
The patch has really nothing to do with networking,
But that was your introduction for it, wasn't it?
Are you against giving developers freedom?
Are you against making your changes available under GPL?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk