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From: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [U-Boot, 1/2] spi: Add progress percentage and write speed to `sf update`
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:04:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121220150408.GN14589@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPnjgZ2pETu-w7w8QYv2YuKXdrZeHVPYxbMKet6NyYZ8U29uOw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 05:18:55PM -0800, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:14:00AM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> >> Dear Tom Rini,
> >>
> >> In message <20121219225945.GF14589@bill-the-cat> you wrote:
> >> >
> >> ...
> >> > With this change, applied to u-boot/master.
> >>
> >> Argh.... :-(
> >>
> >> Can we please undo this somehow?  This does not fit at all
> >> conceptually.  U-Boot is supposed to use the good ols UNIX philosophy
> >> of being terse by default, and special casing one specific storage
> >> device makes no sense at all to me.
> >
> > We need to fix some of the underlying problems so that we're consistent
> > here.  Sometimes we have output (network #), sometimes we don't.
> > Sometimes we have a speed (network, filesystem load), sometimes we
> > don't.  I'd be quite happy to have a uniform output and a uniform ON/OFF
> > switch.
> 
> I'm happy to do something like this. Obviously we want a config, but
> do we also want an env variable to control it? Could be useful.

The biggest blocker I see is that we should start the series by
re-orging things, if we can, so that we don't have this code in N
places.

> And at the risk of killing it with feature creep, perhaps we could
> have two levels of verbosity: progress (which repeatedly updates on
> the same line) and notice (which does not). That might take care of
> Jagannadha's use case also.

If we can do it such that it's (a) clean looking and (b) build-time
configurable too, I don't see why we can't give it a look at least.

-- 
Tom
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-20 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-29  0:28 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] spi: Add progress percentage and write speed to `sf update` Simon Glass
2012-09-29  0:28 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] spi: Add SPI flash test Simon Glass
2012-10-01 17:32   ` Tom Rini
2012-10-08 23:00     ` Simon Glass
2012-10-08 23:03       ` Tom Rini
2012-12-19 23:12   ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-19 20:43 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, 1/2] spi: Add progress percentage and write speed to `sf update` Tom Rini
2012-12-19 20:46   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-19 20:59     ` Tom Rini
2012-12-19 22:59       ` Tom Rini
2012-12-19 23:14         ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-20  1:03           ` Tom Rini
2012-12-20  1:18             ` Simon Glass
2012-12-20 15:04               ` Tom Rini [this message]
2012-12-21  8:46               ` Jagan Teki
2012-12-21 18:21                 ` Simon Glass
2012-12-21 19:52                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-19 23:10 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH " Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-19 23:20   ` Simon Glass
2012-12-19 23:42     ` Scott Wood
2012-12-20  6:20       ` Wolfgang Denk

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