From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 01:37:49 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v6 2/2] NET: Add net_busy_flag In-Reply-To: <51E82696.9030507@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1374156931-1718-1-git-send-email-jilin@nvidia.com> <1374156931-1718-2-git-send-email-jilin@nvidia.com> <51E82696.9030507@wwwdotorg.org> Message-ID: <201307190137.49805.marex@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Stephen Warren, > On 07/18/2013 08:15 AM, Jim Lin wrote: > > This flag is to have console aware that NET transfer is running or not. > > I actually wonder if the shell interpreter or command-invocation code > (to cover automatic bootcmd?) shouldn't set this flag before invoking > every command, and clear it afterward? Or perhaps, a flag should be > added to commands that would benefit from this flag being set? Not a bad idea, but then this might be also needed for USB if the transfer is long etc etc > But this patch is probably a reasonable way to implement it in the first > place, so we don't add complex infra-structure if it turns out that > nothing else is going to require this feature. Best regards, Marek Vasut