[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/5] altera_qspi: show erase progress

[Marek Vasut]

On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 01:12:28 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> Hi Marek,
> 
> On 2015年12月24日 13:37, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Thursday, December 24, 2015 at 06:24:45 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> >> Hi Marek,
> >> 
> >> On 2015年12月24日 11:42, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> On Thursday, December 24, 2015 at 04:26:57 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> >>>> Hi Marek,
> >>> 
> >>> Hi Thomas,
> >>> 
> >>>> On 2015年12月24日 11:02, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>>>> On Thursday, December 24, 2015 at 03:50:57 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi Marek,
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> On 2015年12月24日 09:29, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Thursday, December 24, 2015 at 01:51:23 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Show sector erase progress with dot and comma.
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas at wytron.com.tw>
> >>>>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Shouldn't this go into common code ?
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> The code to print a dot is minimal. It will cost more if this go
> >>>>>> into common code.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> But then this driver behaves in a non-standard manner AND noone
> >>>>> benefits from this functionality but this driver.
> >>>> 
> >>>> The sector erase might take very long when there are a lot of sectors
> >>>> to erase, say 12 min to 50 min for 1024 sectors on the 10m50 board.
> >>>> Without the display of progress, it will look like the board hangs.
> >>> 
> >>> Yeah, that I do understand and I agree this is a good idea :)
> >>> 
> >>>> The dotting code comes from the old cfi_flash.c. Some other parallel
> >>>> flash have this, but not spi-flash. It is trivial to add though.
> >>> 
> >>> Urm, altera_qspi is CFI, right ? So can we stuff this into common code
> >>> or not? Sorry if I am confused and off the mark.
> >> 
> >> No worries. I think the dotting is best done per driver.
> > 
> > Well why do you think so ?
> 
> Well, it is only a putc() which is plain and simple.

Sure, but then I still don't understand why this cannot be in the common code.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut