[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/5] altera_qspi: show erase progress

[Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>]

Hi Marek,

On 2015?12?24? 11:42, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Thursday, December 24, 2015 at 04:26:57 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
>> Hi Marek,
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
>> On 2015?12?24? 11:02, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>> On Thursday, December 24, 2015 at 03:50:57 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
>>>> Hi Marek,
>>>>
>>>> On 2015?12?24? 09:29, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday, December 24, 2015 at 01:51:23 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
>>>>>> Show sector erase progress with dot and comma.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>
>>>>> Shouldn't this go into common code ?
>>>>
>>>> The code to print a dot is minimal. It will cost more if this go into
>>>> common code.
>>>
>>> But then this driver behaves in a non-standard manner AND noone benefits
>>> from this functionality but this driver.
>>
>> The sector erase might take very long when there are a lot of sectors to
>> erase, say 12 min to 50 min for 1024 sectors on the 10m50 board. Without
>> the display of progress, it will look like the board hangs.
>
> Yeah, that I do understand and I agree this is a good idea :)
>
>> The dotting code comes from the old cfi_flash.c. Some other parallel
>> flash have this, but not spi-flash. It is trivial to add though.
>
> Urm, altera_qspi is CFI, right ? So can we stuff this into common code or not?
> Sorry if I am confused and off the mark.

No worries. I think the dotting is best done per driver. We can have 
common behavior. But there is little advantage to make it common code.

Merry Xmas.

Thomas Chou