On 10/26/2011 01:17 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > - Failure to process multi-line input is a restriction, and if you > like you may even consider it a bug.
Is this restriction documented anywhere? > But papering over that bug and > suggesting to the end users that they are allowed to use multi-line > input while we all know very well that it actually works only under > certain (somewhar fragile) assumptions is a fraudulent misrepresen- > tation. Well then I guess you'd better forcibly dump any input received after a newline, before the next prompt is displayed -- because the current U-Boot implementation "fraudulently" made me think such a thing was possible but resource-constrained when it worked for up to 5 lines for the particular thing I was trying to paste. :-) > The approaches discussed so far all have issues. So far I don't see > an approach that appears to be generally usable, clean in design and > reliable in operation. That seems like it would be interrupts, but there's a conflict here between "solve it perfectly (at least up to the limit of the internal buffer)" and "this is just a bootloader, keep it simple". And it seems there's no room for a pragmatic middle ground. > Regarding this specific patch you submitted: I made my mind up, and I > reject it for the resons given above and in previous messages. Oh well, I guess we'll just maintain it locally, or find some alternative to pasting things. -Scott _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
