diff --git a/README b/README
index a96dd428cb..119bbc994d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -4142,6 +4142,10 @@ Configuration Settings:
 		list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
 		".flags" variable.
 
+	If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
+	regular expression. This allows multiple variables to define the same
+	flags without explicitly listing them for each variable.
+
 - CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
 	If defined, don't allow the -f switch to env set override variable
 	access flags.
@@ -5540,6 +5544,10 @@ override any association in the static list. You can define
 CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the
 ".callbacks" environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
 
+If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
+regular expression. This allows multiple variables to be connected to
+the same callback without explicitly listing them all out.
+
 
 Command Line Parsing:
 =====================
diff --git a/common/env_attr.c b/common/env_attr.c
index b9de16f73e..5bfe5e3a89 100644
--- a/common/env_attr.c
+++ b/common/env_attr.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <linux/linux_string.h>
 #else
 #include <common.h>
+#include <slre.h>
 #endif
 
 #include <env_attr.h>
@@ -109,6 +110,89 @@ int env_attr_walk(const char *attr_list,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_REGEX)
+struct regex_callback_priv {
+	const char *searched_for;
+	char *regex;
+	char *attributes;
+};
+
+static int regex_callback(const char *name, const char *attributes, void *priv)
+{
+	int retval = 0;
+	struct regex_callback_priv *cbp = (struct regex_callback_priv *)priv;
+	struct slre slre;
+	char regex[strlen(name) + 3];
+
+	/* Require the whole string to be described by the regex */
+	sprintf(regex, "^%s$", name);
+	if (slre_compile(&slre, regex)) {
+		struct cap caps[slre.num_caps + 2];
+
+		if (slre_match(&slre, cbp->searched_for,
+			       strlen(cbp->searched_for), caps)) {
+			free(cbp->regex);
+			cbp->regex = malloc(strlen(regex) + 1);
+			if (cbp->regex) {
+				strcpy(cbp->regex, regex);
+			} else {
+				retval = -ENOMEM;
+				goto done;
+			}
+
+			free(cbp->attributes);
+			cbp->attributes = malloc(strlen(attributes) + 1);
+			if (cbp->attributes) {
+				strcpy(cbp->attributes, attributes);
+			} else {
+				retval = -ENOMEM;
+				free(cbp->regex);
+				cbp->regex = NULL;
+				goto done;
+			}
+		}
+	} else {
+		printf("Error compiling regex: %s\n", slre.err_str);
+		retval = EINVAL;
+	}
+done:
+	return retval;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Retrieve the attributes string associated with a single name in the list
+ * There is no protection on attributes being too small for the value
+ */
+int env_attr_lookup(const char *attr_list, const char *name, char *attributes)
+{
+	if (!attributes)
+		/* bad parameter */
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (!attr_list)
+		/* list not found */
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	struct regex_callback_priv priv;
+	int retval;
+
+	priv.searched_for = name;
+	priv.regex = NULL;
+	priv.attributes = NULL;
+	retval = env_attr_walk(attr_list, regex_callback, &priv);
+	if (retval)
+		return retval; /* error */
+
+	if (priv.regex) {
+		strcpy(attributes, priv.attributes);
+		free(priv.attributes);
+		free(priv.regex);
+		/* success */
+		return 0;
+	}
+	return -ENOENT; /* not found in list */
+}
+#else
+
 /*
  * Search for the last exactly matching name in an attribute list
  */
@@ -219,3 +303,4 @@ int env_attr_lookup(const char *attr_list, const char *name, char *attributes)
 	/* not found in list */
 	return -ENOENT;
 }
+#endif
diff --git a/include/env_callback.h b/include/env_callback.h
index ab4e115fb0..3de1093ff1 100644
--- a/include/env_callback.h
+++ b/include/env_callback.h
@@ -31,12 +31,18 @@
 #define SPLASHIMAGE_CALLBACK
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_REGEX
+#define ENV_DOT_ESCAPE "\\"
+#else
+#define ENV_DOT_ESCAPE
+#endif
+
 /*
  * This list of callback bindings is static, but may be overridden by defining
  * a new association in the ".callbacks" environment variable.
  */
-#define ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC ENV_CALLBACK_VAR ":callbacks," \
-	ENV_FLAGS_VAR ":flags," \
+#define ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC ENV_DOT_ESCAPE ENV_CALLBACK_VAR ":callbacks," \
+	ENV_DOT_ESCAPE ENV_FLAGS_VAR ":flags," \
 	"baudrate:baudrate," \
 	"bootfile:bootfile," \
 	"loadaddr:loadaddr," \