Hi Kevin, On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 01:42:36PM +0800, Kevin Du Huanpeng wrote: > > I am confusing with CONSOLE_NONE, what is it mean? > 1. the board don't have a console? > is the board still can have a serial port, but not accepts input? > 2. where should the debug messages go? > the serial port is not a console but > when CONSOLE_NONE defined, printf just a nothing but return a 0, > but the pr_print() declared but not defined. CONSOLE_NONE is for boards which a) Don't have anything usable for console or b) have a console but you want to build a quiet, non-interactive barebox. The idea is to drop all the strings from the binary to make it smaller.It seems noone ever used CONSOLE_NONE, so it bitrotted. The following patch fixes this. Sascha ----------------------------8<--------------------------- >From fbb191fd416de27148bc977c320e07c95b4ca36c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 08:05:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] console: Fix CONSOLE_NONE support Without console support we need a static inline version of pr_print and dev_printf, otherwise we get link errors. Reported-by: Kevin Du Huanpeng <u74147@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/printk.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/printk.h b/include/printk.h index fb63586..22c6c73 100644 --- a/include/printk.h +++ b/include/printk.h @@ -21,11 +21,23 @@ /* debugging and troubleshooting/diagnostic helpers. */ +#ifndef CONFIG_CONSOLE_NONE int pr_print(int level, const char *format, ...) __attribute__ ((format(__printf__, 2, 3))); int dev_printf(int level, const struct device_d *dev, const char *format, ...) __attribute__ ((format(__printf__, 3, 4))); +#else +static inline int pr_print(int level, const char *format, ...) +{ + return 0; +} + +static inline int dev_printf(int level, const struct device_d *dev, const char *format, ...) +{ + return 0; +} +#endif #define __dev_printf(level, dev, format, args...) \ ({ \ -- 2.1.0 -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox