[PATCH v2] barebox update: add note after successful update

[Stefan Christ]

Hi Sascha,

> I would find this message more useful from the new, updated barebox
> rather than from the barebox that does the update. This way we could
> also see the message with offline updates when for example a SD
> card has been updated on an external host. Also we would have more
> freedom to react on an outdated environment in the next steps. We could
> for example make it configurable to completely ignore an outdated
> environment or just to issue a warning message.
> Doing this should be fairly simple, we could store the barebox version
> in a nv variable and compare the variable with the current version
> during startup.
> 
> What do you think?

This would solve the issue for our users.

If I understand you correctly, this approach is different from a separate
versioning of the environment data, since the barebox verison in UTS_RELEASE is
written to the nv variable. So nobody can forget to increase the version number
of the environment and a warning message is printing to the user as a new
barebox with a different version is flashed.

I looked at the code a bit. The first step would be to write the version of the
running barebox into environment in the function envfs_save() and compare the
version in the function envfs_load(). Correct? In envfs_load() the warning
message would be printed.

But we cannot interrupt the boot sequence and ask the user whether he/she wants
to use the old environment or use the default environment, because the default
boot process must be non-interactive. So only a warning can be printed, right?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards,
	Stefan Christ

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 03:52:41PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:20:08PM +0200, Stefan Christ wrote:
> > Hi Sascha,
> > 
> > *ping, is this patch acceptable?
> 
> I thought about this again.
> 
> I would find this message more useful from the new, updated barebox
> rather than from the barebox that does the update. This way we could
> also see the message with offline updates when for example a SD
> card has been updated on an external host. Also we would have more
> freedom to react on an outdated environment in the next steps. We could
> for example make it configurable to completely ignore an outdated
> environment or just to issue a warning message.
> Doing this should be fairly simple, we could store the barebox version
> in a nv variable and compare the variable with the current version
> during startup.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Sascha
> 
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