Re: envfs: provide an intentional way to ignore an existing external environment

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On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:33:02AM +0200, Juergen Borleis wrote:
> Hi Uwe,
> 
> On Thursday 31 July 2014 09:14:25 Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > [...]
> > Compared with storing the default environment in the external store the
> > only difference is that you don't need to modify it if you change the
> > internal one, right?
> 
> This would also be an advantage of this new feature.
The only one even?

> > I wonder what the targeted use case is.
> 
> To use an external stored environment *only* for development purposes or tests 
> and to keep the possibility to do so.
Doesn't make a warm and cosy feeling. Isn't it easier and more robust to
just not tell barebox about the external storage at all and for the
testing/development procedure do an explicit

	loadenv /dev/tralala

?

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |

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