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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC 1/2] env: Drop error messages when loading environment
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 08:19:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180718061950.6BDAA240133@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180717220912.11358-1-semen.protsenko@linaro.org>

Dear Sam,

In message <20180717220912.11358-1-semen.protsenko@linaro.org> you wrote:
> This is just a draft to discuss ideas related to "Make U-Boot log great
> again" thread.
> 
> With this patch we will have something like this:
> 
>     Loading Environment from FAT... Failed (-5)
>     Loading Environment from MMC... OK
> 
> instead of this:
> 
>     Loading Environment from FAT... MMC: no card present
>     ** Bad device mmc 0 **
>     Failed (-5)
>     Loading Environment from MMC... OK

Why do you think an error message "Failed (-5)" looks great?

From a user's point of view, the "MMC: no card present"
is _much_ better (but of course it could still be improved).

Printing cryptic error codes has never been a good idea and is
definitly not a "great" idea.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-18  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-17 22:09 [U-Boot] [RFC 1/2] env: Drop error messages when loading environment Sam Protsenko
2018-07-17 22:09 ` [U-Boot] [RFC 2/2] env: Add prefix to error messages when loading env Sam Protsenko
2018-07-18  6:23   ` Wolfgang Denk
2018-07-18 12:53   ` Tom Rini
2018-07-18 13:04     ` Sam Protsenko
2018-07-18 14:28       ` Tom Rini
2018-07-18 14:09     ` Wolfgang Denk
2018-07-19 12:52       ` Tom Rini
2018-07-19 13:12         ` Sam Protsenko
2018-07-19 19:52           ` Wolfgang Denk
2018-07-19 20:16             ` Sam Protsenko
2018-07-19 19:49         ` Wolfgang Denk
2018-07-18  6:19 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2018-07-18 12:50   ` [U-Boot] [RFC 1/2] env: Drop error messages when loading environment Sam Protsenko
2018-07-18 12:51   ` Tom Rini

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