[SLOF] [Slof] [PATCH 3/5] boot: remove trailing ":" in the bootpath

Nikunj A Dadhania nikunj at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jul 8 18:52:28 AEST 2015


Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru> writes:

> On 07/07/2015 01:20 PM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
>> Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 10:04:05 -0500
>>> Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 04:32:39PM +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
>>>>>         -rot                              ( ihandle devstr len )
>>>>> -      my-args nip 0= IF
>>>>> -	 2dup 1- + c@ [char] : <> IF    \ Add : to device path if missing
>>>>> -	    1+ strdup 2dup 1- + [char] : swap c!
>>>>> -	 THEN
>>>>> -      THEN
>>>>>         encode-string s" bootpath" set-chosen
>>>>
>>>> That looks fine to me, but someone added that on purpose; what was
>>>> that purpose, why is this code no longer needed/wanted?
>>>
>>> Looking at the SLOF git from Adrian (which can be cloned from
>>> http://lisas.de/~adrian/slof/slof.git) which contains the early open source
>>> releases of SLOF, it seems like this piece of code has been added
>>> before the first open source release already. So that information is
>>> likely not available anymore :-(
>>
>> Yes, git history wasnt there, I had searched and asked around.
>
> Have you asked Ben? :) I am adding his to cc:.

Yes, I had him in CC when I asked.

Regards
Nikunj



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