[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] dfu:cmd: Support for DFU u-boot command

[Marek Vasut]

Dear Mike Frysinger,

> On Friday 20 July 2012 17:11:33 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Dear Mike Frysinger,
> > 
> > > On Friday 20 July 2012 07:33:49 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > Dear Mike Frysinger,
> > > > 
> > > > > On Wednesday 04 July 2012 10:39:20 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > > > > Putting there the __func__ name would improve structure and
> > > > > > > speed up finding right place.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > And if you want to use even __LINE__, look up __stringify patch
> > > > > > in the ML archives ;-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > ugh, no, let's not use __LINE__ anywhere other than debug().  it
> > > > > has no business in code we ship as it is pointless bloated noise.
> > > > 
> > > > Helps find out the problematic place in code ...
> > > 
> > > except the code changes thus invalidating the line numbers, and how
> > > often are you putting the same string in multiple places that you
> > > can't easily coordinate where it came from ?  if people are using the
> > > same exact string in multiple places, that sounds like a different
> > > problem.
> > 
> > You can always replace the function names with macros, which expand in
> > place. And then simply add __func__ __LINE__ __FILE__ etc.
> 
> if you wanted to add it while debugging, that's fine, but the point is that
> this doesn't belong in normal runtime images.

Well doh ...

> it's even trivial to define
> such a macro:
> #ifdef DEBUG
> # define printf(fmt, args...) printf("%s:%s:%i: " fmt, __FILE__, __LINE__,
> __func__, ## args)
> #endif

Uh, now I'm not sure what you mean by this stuff above.

> (will obviously need a little more work to handle non-const fmt strings,
> but you get the idea).
> -mike

Best regards,
Marek Vasut