On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 05:25:27PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 29 February 2016 at 16:56, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 04:47:19PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >> On 02/25/2016 09:00 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> >> >Some features are only useful or meaningful when the command line is
> >> >present. Ensure that these features are not compiled in when 
> >> >CONFIG_CMDLINE
> >> >is not enabled.
> >>
> >> How does this series affect the various code that executes other
> >> U-Boot functionality by executing commands rather than calling
> >> functions? For instance, drivers/dfu/dfu_mmc.c:mmc_file_op() calls
> >> run_command() to perform the actual disk I/O. I assume that is
> >> incompatible with enabling this new feature? If so, can Kconfig
> >> enforce that?
> >
> > This is what I was trying to get at as well.  We may have to initially
> > say that some stuff is dependent on CMDLINE || BROKEN or something as we
> > have some even funkier cases for some FSL DDR things.
> 
> Yes, it will break it. I'd like to think we can move to cleaning this
> stuff up though.
> 
> IMO mmc_file_op() is wrong. It should work using function calls, not
> through the command-line interface. Perhaps that is hard today, and
> will get easier with driver model?

The DFU case at least was certainly more ugly at the time when doing
function calls, yes.  And to start with it's not a big deal to mark some
things (even whole SoCs) as requiring CMDLINE.

-- 
Tom

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