Tolunay Orkun wrote:
The point is you can simply use already available "protect off"
Not to add fuel to the fire ;-) ... but in the past, I did precisely what Tolunay suggests. I just added a "protect off" to the boot command to explicitly unprotect specific sectors. It worked just fine -- and I did not consider the techique to lack convenience.
On-the-other-hand, preventing automatic "UN-protection" in this case is _policy_ enforcement -- we would be making technical decisions for others, for applications we know nothing about -- this, I am sure, is not the u-boot "spirit" that I have observed over the past 5 years.
That being said, a default that does not automatically un-protect seems appropriate -- or find a way to push the auto un-protect capability into the board-specific tree.
Regards, --Scott