[U-Boot] [U-Boot,v2] menu: fix timeout duration
Tom Rini
trini at konsulko.com
Wed Jun 6 11:15:59 UTC 2018
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 05:04:57PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> For distro-boot, the TIMEOUT directive in the boot script specifies
> how long to pause in units of 1/10 sec. [1]
>
> Commit 8594753ba0a7 ("menu: only timeout when menu is displayed")
> corrected this by simply dividing the timeout value by 10 in
> menu_interactive_choice().
>
> I see two problems:
>
> - For example, "TIMEOUT 5" should wait for 0.5 sec, but the current
> implementation cannot handle the granularity of 1/10 sec.
> In fact, it never breaks because "m->timeout / 10" is zero,
> which means no timeout.
>
> - The menu API is used not only by cmd/pxe.c but also by
> common/autoboot.c . For the latter case, the unit of the
> timeout value is _second_ because its default is associated
> with CONFIG_BOOTDELAY.
>
> To fix the first issue, use DIV_ROUND_UP() so that the timeout value
> is rounded up to the closest integer.
>
> For the second issue, move the division to the boundary between
> cmd/pxe.c and common/menu.c . This is a more desirable place because
> the comment of struct pxe_menu says:
>
> * timeout - time in tenths of a second to wait for a user key-press before
> * booting the default label.
>
> Then, the comment of menu_create() says:
>
> * timeout - A delay in seconds to wait for user input. If 0, timeout is
> * disabled, and the default choice will be returned unless prompt is 1.
>
> [1] https://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=SYSLINUX#TIMEOUT_timeout
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
--
Tom
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