From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Setting MAC address from nv variable broken in barebox 2017.05.0?
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 15:49:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7222213a-da96-3a82-c7b8-8d365f9f6f7a@mev.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4208aa68-1cb6-0224-781a-4572a78ba6fd@mev.co.uk>
On 08/05/17 15:45, Ian Abbott wrote:
> As a related follow-up, this code in globalvar_add_simple() looks a bit
> strange:
>
> if (value)
> dev_set_param(&global_device, name, value);
>
> globalvar_nv_sync(name);
>
> If you set a new global variable with a specified value and there is an
> existing nv variable of the same name, the global variable will be set
> to the value of the nv variable, rather than the specified value:
>
> barebox@xxxx:/ nv -r quux
> barebox@xxxx:/ global -r quux
> barebox@xxxx:/ nv quux=foo
> barebox@xxxx:/ global quux=bar
> barebox@xxxx:/ echo ${global.quux}
> foo
That was with 2017.05.0. I'll check the behaviour with Sascha's patch
shortly.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-08 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-08 13:39 Ian Abbott
2017-05-08 14:34 ` Sascha Hauer
2017-05-08 15:44 ` Ian Abbott
2017-05-08 14:45 ` Ian Abbott
2017-05-08 14:49 ` Ian Abbott [this message]
2017-05-08 18:12 ` Sascha Hauer
2017-05-09 10:02 ` Ian Abbott
2017-05-11 6:17 ` Sascha Hauer
2017-05-11 9:48 ` Ian Abbott
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