[U-Boot] [PATCH] Make TFTP Quiet

[Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>]

Hi Timur,

>> +#ifdef CONFIG_TFTP_QUIET
>> +#define puts_quiet(fmt)
>> +#else
>> +#define puts_quiet(fmt) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?puts(fmt);
>> +#endif
>
> This looks backwards to me.  I would do this:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_TFTP_QUIET
> #define puts(x) puts_quiet(x)
> #endif
>
> That way, you don't need to change all of the puts calls to
> puts_quiet.   Plus, having the normal calls be "puts_quiet" that
> changes to puts when QUIET is *not* enabled just feels wrong.

Just as a general remark - I consider it a bad idea to "overload" well
known functions with non-standard behaviour.  This breaks the "principle
of least surprise" which turns out to be very valuable.

Cheers
  Detlev

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