[U-Boot] [PATCH] menu: fix timeout duration

Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro at socionext.com
Thu May 24 04:29:06 UTC 2018


menu_interactive_choice() divides the timeout value by 10 before
passing it to cli_readline_into_buffer().

For distro-boot, the "timeout" variable in the boot script should
specify the time in _seconds_ to wait for keyboard input before
booting the default menu entry.

Due to the division, "timeout 50" actually wait for only 5 seconds
instead of 50.  What is worse, "timeout 5" never breaks because
"m->timeout / 10" is zero, which means no timeout.

For CONFIG_MENU_SHOW case, menu_show() should also take the timeout
value in seconds because its default comes from CONFIG_BOOTDELAY.

The "division by 10" was introduced by commit 8594753ba0a7 ("menu:
only timeout when menu is displayed").  Its log claimed "fixed",
but to me, it rather looks the root cause of the problem.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
---

Rob,

I know commit 8594753ba0a7 is already 6 years ago.
If you remember something about "/ 10", please comment.


 common/menu.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common/menu.c b/common/menu.c
index bf2b471..bf23194 100644
--- a/common/menu.c
+++ b/common/menu.c
@@ -194,8 +194,7 @@ static inline int menu_interactive_choice(struct menu *m, void **choice)
 
 		if (!m->item_choice) {
 			readret = cli_readline_into_buffer("Enter choice: ",
-							   cbuf,
-							   m->timeout / 10);
+							   cbuf, timeout);
 
 			if (readret >= 0) {
 				choice_item = menu_item_by_key(m, cbuf);
-- 
2.7.4



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