[U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: transform init_sequence into a function.

[Joakim Tjernlund]

Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote on 2010/12/06 21:09:47:
>
> Dear Joakim Tjernlund,
>
> In message <1291658370-26367-1-git-send-email-Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se> you wrote:
> > init_sequence is an array with function pointers which
> > are really hard to follow when you need to debug this area.
> > Turn it into plain function calls instead which makes
> > the code a bit uglier but I find the simpler debugging
> > much more valuable.
>
> This is indeed much uglier.  What exactly is your problem with
> debugging the existing code?

Whenever I screw up so that one of the init funcs crashes, often without
any trace on the RS232 port you don't know which one. Single stepping
though the loop is cumbersome and not easy as BDI tends to
flush the cache when it stops so you loose your stack.
The other way is to look up one those funs and set a BP there and hope
for the best. Then repeat with the next function and so on.
Compare that with just setting a BP in the new init_sequence(), it is
fast and easy to move around.

I don't think you have been chasing bugs in this area for a long time,
if you had, you would appreciate how easy it is with functions
compared with a bunch of function ptrs.
I don't think this is much uglier, just a bit, but far more
useful and I have a hard time buying into "beautiful trumps usefulness".

 Jocke