[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 0/9] Unified command execution in one place

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Mar 6 20:51:34 CET 2012


Dear Simon Glass,

In message <1329285566-30386-1-git-send-email-sjg at chromium.org> you wrote:
> 
> At present two parsers have similar code to execute commands. Also
> cmd_usage() is called all over the place. This series adds a single
> function which processes commands called cmd_process().
> 
> This new function understands return codes, and in particular
> CMD_RET_USAGE to indicate a usage error. So rather than calling
> cmd_usage() themselves, the command handlers can just return this
> error.
> 
> There appears to be a run_command2() which is used to run commands
> with the selected parser. This series changes this in two separate
> steps to just run_command(), and renames the old run_command() to
> builtin_run_command(). No one should call this outside main.c since
> if the hush parser is being used it is wrong to call it. The
> built-in parser code could move into a separate file perhaps in a
> future patch.
> 
> The overall series reduces code size on ARM by about 1KB on
> my ~160KB U-Boot text region when the hush parser is used, and around
> 60 bytes when it isn't.

I tested this on PPC (TQM5200 config):

add/remove: 2/0 grow/shrink: 3/40 up/down: 268/-740 (-472)

and ARM (m28evk config):

add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 5/38 up/down: 212/-1404 (-1192)

so this looks good to me.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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