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From: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Allow console input to be disabled
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:19:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2myjp10ht.fsf@ohwell.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080807122701.202ee982@hskinnemo-gx745.norway.atmel.com> (Haavard Skinnemoen's message of "Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:27:01 +0200")

Hi Haavard,

> Mark Jackson <mpfj@mimc.co.uk> wrote:
>> Added CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE_INPUT define.
>> 
>> When used (in conjunction with CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE) it disables all console input.
>
> Does anyone have an opinion about this? I think it's a nice thing to
> have.

Hm, defining this and then "setenv silent=1;saveenv;reset" and we have
lost any chance to access u-boot command line?  This looks pretty
dangerous to me, so I do not particularly like it.

What is the original motivation to skip the input?

Cheers
  Detlev

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-07 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-30 12:17 [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Allow console input to be disabled Mark Jackson
2008-08-07 10:27 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-08-07 12:19   ` Detlev Zundel [this message]
2008-08-07 12:43     ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-08-09 23:16       ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-08-10 17:45         ` Mark Jackson
2008-08-11  7:25         ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-08-11  8:28           ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-08-11  8:36             ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-08-11 11:19             ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-08-11 12:19               ` [U-Boot] " Wolfgang Denk
2008-08-11 12:31                 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-08-11 12:53                   ` Mark Jackson
2008-08-11 13:13                     ` Haavard Skinnemoen

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