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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] net/tsec: Don't tell the link status if used with netconsole
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 04:26:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201204080426.42730.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANr=Z=Y-ma=CNuW55FC_Z2a=6Cnw2iW9SiythpsupVipnFN8hA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 04 April 2012 11:27:44 Joe Hershberger wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > On 04/03/2012 10:42 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> On Friday 23 March 2012 16:11:19 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> >>> --- a/drivers/net/tsec.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/net/tsec.c
> >>> 
> >>> +       if (strcmp(getenv("stdout"), "nc"))
> >> 
> >> i really don't like special casing devices like this
> 
> In this case I think it is better to check if stdout is nc, but not to
> explicitly write to serial_printf().  The nc device is the reason to
> avoid printing this since it uses the network.  The serial_printf
> seems like the special case to avoid.  Consider the case of using a
> SPI UART.  There is no reason these traces should not go to it via the
> normal printf routing.

my point is that this doesn't scale ... not even close.  either drop the 
printf calls in the core net case (when it'd be a problem with the 
netconsole), or figure out a solution that does actually scale.  maybe a 
net_printf().
-mike
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-08  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-23 20:11 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] net/eth: set status to active before calling init Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-03-23 20:11 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] net/tsec: convert the printf() to serial_printf() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-03-23 20:11 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] net/tsec: Don't tell the link status if used with netconsole Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-04-03 20:42   ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-03 20:54     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-04-04 15:27       ` Joe Hershberger
2012-04-08  8:26         ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2012-04-09 21:43           ` Joe Hershberger
2012-04-03 20:41 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] net/eth: set status to active before calling init Mike Frysinger
2012-04-03 20:51   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

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