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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2022-03-11 16:22:38 -0700
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>2022-04-07 14:06:12 -0400
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env: Move the doc comment to the code
This doesn't really make much sense in the documentation. Add a code comment instead. Suggested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
-rw-r--r--common/autoboot.c5
-rw-r--r--doc/usage/environment.rst1
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/common/autoboot.c b/common/autoboot.c
index b8861d5..63f2587 100644
--- a/common/autoboot.c
+++ b/common/autoboot.c
@@ -446,6 +446,11 @@ const char *bootdelay_process(void)
s = env_get("bootdelay");
bootdelay = s ? (int)simple_strtol(s, NULL, 10) : CONFIG_BOOTDELAY;
+ /*
+ * Does it really make sense that the devicetree overrides the user
+ * setting? It is possibly helpful for security since the device tree
+ * may be signed whereas the environment is often loaded from storage.
+ */
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF_CONTROL))
bootdelay = ofnode_conf_read_int("bootdelay", bootdelay);
diff --git a/doc/usage/environment.rst b/doc/usage/environment.rst
index d295cc8..4b228c1 100644
--- a/doc/usage/environment.rst
+++ b/doc/usage/environment.rst
@@ -120,7 +120,6 @@ bootdelay
The default value is defined by CONFIG_BOOTDELAY.
The value of 'bootdelay' is overridden by the /config/bootdelay value in
the device-tree if CONFIG_OF_CONTROL=y.
- Does it really make sense that the devicetree overrides the user setting?
bootcmd
The command that is run if the user does not enter the shell during the