Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message 200909091015.05454.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
- "use ncb when possible"
Here I really dislike the implementation of "when possible", which makes silent and undocumented assumptions about from which directory the script has to be run. I guess the "when possible" would almost always turn out to be false, so we might omit the patch alltogether, especially since it's also documented in "doc/README.NetConsole".
If we add it, we should follow standard UNIX philosophy and assume that you set your PATH accordingly to reach the tools you want to use.
since ncb is compiled whenever netconsole is enabled, and people typically use this script with netconsole enabled, "when possible" tends to be line up fairly often. also, the broadcast aspect is pretty useful. i guess i could
Agreed. But the code is based on the assumption that your current directory when attaching to the console of a target is the U-Boot source directory. For me, this is definitely not always the case. I might as well have /tftpboot or solilar as cwd.
make it search PATH, but the idea was to have things "just work" rather than forcing people to install random utils into their PATH.
I rather have people intentionally install tools to some directory in their PATH or set PATH intentionally to some tool directory rather than have tools suddenly and mysteriously break just because I run them from a different location.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk