[U-Boot] [PATCH v1 1/1] netconsole loses 2nd character of input

Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 07:52:28 CEST 2013


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Suriyan Ramasami <suriyan.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> Netconsole loses the second character when used as input by
> either setenv stdin nc or setenv stdin serial,nc if using CONSOLE_CONSOLE_MUX
>
> Before a nc_send_packet() to echo the input, a check is done to see if
> nc_ether is valid. If its not, it waits for an arp request and then sends
> the packet (which contains the first character of line to be displayed as
> output). As part of reaping the arp request, the second character is consumed.
> We protect this by making the call to NetLoop(NETCONS) between
> input_recursion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suriyan Ramasami <suriyan.r at gmail.com>

This looks good to me... I'll pull it in shortly.

Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>


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