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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] NS16550: buffer reads
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:50:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA8566A.1050102@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111026181715.B37DD11F9E5D@gemini.denx.de>

On 10/26/2011 01:17 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> - Failure to process multi-line input is a restriction, and if you
>   like you may even consider it a bug.

Is this restriction documented anywhere?

>   But papering over that bug and
>   suggesting to the end users that they are allowed to use multi-line
>   input while we all know very well that it actually works only under
>   certain (somewhar fragile) assumptions is a fraudulent misrepresen-
>   tation.

Well then I guess you'd better forcibly dump any input received after a
newline, before the next prompt is displayed -- because the current
U-Boot implementation "fraudulently" made me think such a thing was
possible but resource-constrained when it worked for up to 5 lines for
the particular thing I was trying to paste. :-)

> The approaches discussed so far all have issues. So far I don't see
> an approach that appears to be generally usable, clean in design and
> reliable in operation.

That seems like it would be interrupts, but there's a conflict here
between "solve it perfectly (at least up to the limit of the internal
buffer)" and "this is just a bootloader, keep it simple".  And it seems
there's no room for a pragmatic middle ground.

> Regarding this specific patch you submitted: I made my mind up, and I
> reject it for the resons given above and in previous messages.

Oh well, I guess we'll just maintain it locally, or find some
alternative to pasting things.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-26 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-16  5:14 [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 1/2] NS16550: trivial code clean for checkpatch Simon Glass
2011-10-16  5:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 2/2] NS16550: buffer reads Simon Glass
2011-10-16 12:57   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-10-16 17:06     ` Simon Glass
2011-10-16 20:13       ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-16 20:47         ` Simon Glass
2011-10-16 21:03           ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-17 11:08   ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-17 16:25     ` Simon Glass
2011-10-17 20:19     ` Simon Glass
2011-10-17 20:33       ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-17 20:58         ` Simon Glass
2011-10-22  8:29           ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-10-17 12:18   ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-17 16:40     ` Simon Glass
2011-10-22  8:44       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-10-22 22:15         ` Graeme Russ
2011-10-23  8:20           ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-23 11:50             ` Graeme Russ
2011-10-23 17:15               ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-23 20:17                 ` Graeme Russ
2011-10-23 21:22                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-23 21:32                     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] " Graeme Russ
2011-10-23 22:18                       ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-23 23:30                         ` Graeme Russ
2011-10-24  4:47                           ` Simon Glass
2011-10-24 18:46                           ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-24 19:26                             ` Graeme Russ
2011-10-24 20:00                               ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-24 20:40                                 ` Graeme Russ
2011-10-24 21:59                                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-24 22:22                                     ` Graeme Russ
2011-10-24 23:31                                       ` J. William Campbell
2011-10-25  7:31                                       ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-25  8:34                                         ` Graeme Russ
2011-10-25 18:41                                           ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-25 22:37                                             ` Graeme Russ
2011-10-25 23:17                                               ` Simon Glass
     [not found]                                                 ` <CALButCK2XnZ=HR72VaXioCfxkMFgMh2JbXzSDq9TadgKFH52rQ@mail.gmail.com >
2011-10-25 23:37                                                 ` Graeme Russ
2011-10-25 23:48                                                   ` Simon Glass
2011-10-26  3:41                                                     ` Graeme Russ
2011-10-26  7:00                                                       ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-26  9:18                                                         ` Graeme Russ
2011-10-26 10:19                                                           ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-26 16:55                                                   ` Scott Wood
2011-10-26 18:17                                                     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-26 18:50                                                       ` Scott Wood [this message]
2011-10-26 19:19                                                         ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-26  6:54                                               ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-23 18:17   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 2/2] " Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-23 18:20 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 1/2] NS16550: trivial code clean for checkpatch Wolfgang Denk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-15  0:03 [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] NS16550: buffer reads Simon Glass
2011-10-15 10:43 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-10-15 14:47   ` Simon Glass
2011-10-15 16:02     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-15 16:12       ` Simon Glass
2011-10-15 16:21         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-10-15 16:50           ` Simon Glass
2011-10-15 17:45             ` Simon Glass
2011-10-15 19:14               ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-16  4:46                 ` Simon Glass
2011-10-16 19:52                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-16 21:02                     ` Simon Glass
2011-10-15 19:05             ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-15 19:00         ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-16  4:39           ` Simon Glass
2011-10-16 19:47             ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-10-16 20:43               ` Simon Glass
2011-10-16 21:00                 ` Wolfgang Denk

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