[U-Boot] The ctrlc() does not work when used from post_hotkeys_pressed()

[Michael Zaidman]

Hello,

Working on the POST for mpc834x based board I encountered  the following
problem:
The ctrlc() routine does not work when used from post_hotkeys_pressed().
The value of ctrlc_disabled variable defined as static in the console.c
file is lost after code relocation.

By adding the ctrlc_disabled to global data gd structure the problem was solved.

Here is the code changes:

common/console.c              |    7 +++----
include/asm-ppc/global_data.h |    3 ++-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common/console.c b/common/console.c
index dc0d13b..101c308 100644
--- a/common/console.c
+++ b/common/console.c
@@ -400,11 +400,10 @@ void vprintf(const char *fmt, va_list args)
}

/* test if ctrl-c was pressed */
-static int ctrlc_disabled = 0; /* see disable_ctrl() */
static int ctrlc_was_pressed = 0;
int ctrlc(void)
{
- if (!ctrlc_disabled && gd->have_console) {
+ if (!gd->ctrlc_disabled && gd->have_console) {
if (tstc()) {
switch (getc()) {
case 0x03: /* ^C - Control C */
@@ -423,9 +422,9 @@ int ctrlc(void)
 */
int disable_ctrlc(int disable)
{
- int prev = ctrlc_disabled; /* save previous state */
+ int prev = gd->ctrlc_disabled; /* save previous state */

- ctrlc_disabled = disable;
+ gd->ctrlc_disabled = disable;
return prev;
}

diff --git a/include/asm-ppc/global_data.h b/include/asm-ppc/global_data.h
index 55e7e20..7b333ef 100644
--- a/include/asm-ppc/global_data.h
+++ b/include/asm-ppc/global_data.h
@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ typedef struct global_data {
#endif
unsigned long env_addr; /* Address  of Environment struct */
unsigned long env_valid; /* Checksum of Environment valid? */
- unsigned long have_console; /* serial_init() was called */
+ unsigned char have_console; /* serial_init() was called */
+ unsigned char   ctrlc_disabled; /* Is the <ctrl C> enabled? */
#if defined(CONFIG_SYS_ALLOC_DPRAM) || defined(CONFIG_CPM2)
unsigned int dp_alloc_base;
unsigned int dp_alloc_top;


My questions are:
1) I tested this change for ppc branch only. There are a number of boards
belonging to other CPU architectures that also use ctrlc() call from within
the post_hotkeys_pressed(). However, I am not sure they use POST at all.
I went through the list and found only one such board with CONFIG_POST
defined. Does anybody has objection that this change will be expanded
to other CPU architectures also?

2) I wondered why the have_console variable which gets true/false values
only allocates 4 bytes in memory. So I changed it to 1 byte. Thus, adding
ctrlc_disabled of one byte size also did not change the global_data
structure size. Any thoughts? Should it be delivered as separate patch?