[U-Boot] [PATCH v4] POST cleanup.

[Michael Zaidman]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Detlev Zundel <dzu at denx.de> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
>>>> diff --git a/board/barco/barco.c b/board/barco/barco.c
>>>> index c5fe8c4..2d01f1b 100644
>>>> --- a/board/barco/barco.c
>>>> +++ b/board/barco/barco.c
>>>> @@ -348,12 +348,3 @@ int serial_tstc (void)
>>>>  {
>>>>       return 0;
>>>>  }
>>>> -
>>>> -unsigned long post_word_load (void)
>>>> -{
>>>> -     return 0l;
>>>> -}
>>>> -void post_word_store (unsigned long val)
>>>> -{
>>>> -     return;
>>>> -}
>>>
>>> This never worked :)  The config file has no trace of any POST, so the
>>> change you do is pretty useless:
>>
>> These changes are necessary for CONFIG_LOGBUFFER which barco board
>> defines that in turn requires the post_word_load and post_word_store
>> support.
>
> Hm.  It amazes me that CONFIG_LOGBUFFER needs a
> CONFIG_SYS_POST_WORD_ADDR - I simply did not realize this.
>
> Ah, I see now that post.h produces these values when CONFIG_POST _or_
> CONFIG_LOGBUFFER is defined.  I guess this works, but it is non-obvious
> that we need post.h if no POST is used.  But still this is no reason to
> NAK the patch.
>

Actually we do not need to include post.h if post is not used. Only
cmd_log.c includes it.
In this respect patch did not change anything.

Regards,
Michael