From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:67c:670:201:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1fTl2c-0000Y5-L8 for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 09:29:12 +0000 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:28:58 +0200 From: Sascha Hauer Message-ID: <20180615092857.yrvh4pgs4ccu2pum@pengutronix.de> References: <20180615041136.23492-1-andrew.smirnov@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180615041136.23492-1-andrew.smirnov@gmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "barebox" Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/27] Console code consolidation To: Andrey Smirnov Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org Hi Andrey, On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:11:06PM -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote: > Everyone: > > While debugging the reason behind print_hex_dump() not producing > carriage return properly, when used in PBL, I realised that current > codebase contained: > > - at least 5 places where '\n' was replaced with '\n\r' > - at least 3 almost identical implementations of puts() > - at least 3 almost identical implementations of printf() > > so this patcheset is an attempt to consolidate, share and simplify > console related code. The console support really deserves some cleanup. We have the LL console support, PBL console support, regular console support and simple console support, all mixed into a single codebase so that it's sometimes really hard to understand what is going on. Instead of optimizing the different variants for better code sharing I wonder if we could not consolidate some of the console types to reduce the number of variants in the code. PBL console works by calling pbl_set_putc() to specify a putc function. PUTC_LL instead works by putting a PUTC_LL function into a SoC specific header function. Instead each board could provide its own putc function, say board_putc() or so. This would be enough to replace the DEBUG_LL and the PBL console support. Then I don't like weak functions. It can provide nifty solutions to some problems, but I think it also often leads to situations where you don't really know if something has been overwritten or with what is has been overwritten with. I don't consider replacing ifdefs with weak functions a general improvment. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox