[U-Boot] [PATCH] Make TFTP Quiet

Detlev Zundel dzu at denx.de
Thu Aug 13 13:32:05 CEST 2009


Hi,

> On Wed 12 Aug 2009 15:48, Scott Wood pondered:
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:02:33PM +0200, Detlev Zundel wrote:
>> > 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.
>> 
>> Technically, U-Boot's puts() is already non-standard (no automatic
>> newline)...
>> 
>> But there's no redefinition in the original patch.  It's just introducing
>> a new puts_quiet().
>
> Yeah, I think Detlev was just commenting on Timur's suggestion to the patch, 
> not on the original patch...

Correct.

Cheers
  Detlev

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