Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote on 2010-04-01 15:05:29:
Dear Joakim Tjernlund,
In message <OF6D501B3A.40F7E6A2-ONC12576F8.00466BE2-C12576F8. 00471566@transmode.se> you wrote:
I don't think you ever posted this before. I cannot find any trace of such a patch - not in the public archives nor locally.
I think I did, but this would have been late 2001 or 2002 I think :) Not 100% sure about the date since the old CVS log looks a bit fishy after the repo got converted to Subversion.
Ah... that was at PPCBoot times, then. Found it: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:29:26 +0200
Wow, you got your archives in order :)
AFAICT the patch was late for a release, but has not been formally rejected. Probably just got forgotten.
Ah, I must have misunderstood then.
Hm... will this not make escaping impossible? Assume you want to pass
arg=${name}
to Linux. How would you escape this so it does NOT get expanded if you run process_macros() arbitrarily often?
Possibly, I never needed that though. One would probably need to add an escape char for that. Something like arg=${name}
Woudn't this then just cause another cycle through process_macros(), where it then gets substitured anyway? [Guess I gotta try this out.]
I am not sure what will happen, it was so man years ago. But I would guess that if you really want to pass arg=$(name) to the kernel you will probably need to do some adjustment.
Jocke