From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Zahari Doychev <zahari.doychev@linux.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] environment: allow saving of symbolic link changes
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 10:52:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151217095204.GB11966@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <046392bf3e5eae8f1de0f482a23ed1691fb0d549.1450267988.git.zahari.doychev@linux.com>
Hi Zahari,
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 01:24:43PM +0100, Zahari Doychev wrote:
> Currently it is not possible to change symbolic links in the default
> environment. For example if the default environment contains the
> link "current_boot -> mmc" then the following does not work:
>
> $ rm current_boot
> $ ln net current_boot
> $ saveenv
>
> After reset the link is still pointing to "mmc" and this error appears:
>
> "symlink: /env/boot/current_boot -> net : error -17"
>
> The patch fixes the above problem and moves the "ENV_FLAG_NO_OVERWRITE"
> to enable handling of symbolic links in this case too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zahari Doychev <zahari.doychev@linux.com>
Applied, thanks.
BTW for this particular case I would rather recommend using nv
variables, i.e. nv boot.default=net or nv boot.default=mmc; saveenv.
Sascha
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