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From: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] UBIFS: Improve error message when reading superblock failed
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:15:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d39dy29y.fsf@ohwell.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328807702-28146-1-git-send-email-walle@corscience.de> (Bernhard Walle's message of "Thu, 9 Feb 2012 18:15:02 +0100")

Hi Bernhard,

> In addition to the error message also display the error code. I had the
> problem that my malloc memory was not enough (ENOMEM), and if u-boot
> had displayed the error code immediately that would have saved me some
> debugging.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <walle@corscience.de>
> ---
>  fs/ubifs/super.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c
> index 26b48f0..0b1440b 100644
> --- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
> @@ -1191,7 +1191,7 @@ int ubifs_mount(char *vol_name)
>  	mnt = NULL;
>  	ret = ubifs_get_sb(&ubifs_fs_type, flags, name, data, mnt);
>  	if (ret) {
> -		printf("Error reading superblock on volume '%s'!\n", name);
> +		printf("Error reading superblock on volume '%s': %d!\n", name, -ret);
>  		return -1;
>  	}

I think this makes sense, but I think it would be more natural to print
the real error code, not the negative value.  I don't know how to search
for all such occurrences, but I cannot find any but a lot of sites
printing the error code as is.

Cheers
  Detlev

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-17 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-09 17:15 [U-Boot] [PATCH] UBIFS: Improve error message when reading superblock failed Bernhard Walle
2012-02-17 14:15 ` Detlev Zundel [this message]
2012-02-17 14:31   ` Bernhard Walle
2012-02-17 15:00     ` Detlev Zundel
2012-02-20  8:44     ` Bernhard Walle
2012-02-20  8:59       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-02-20  9:11         ` Bernhard Walle
2012-02-20 10:01           ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-04-02 11:58             ` Thomas Weber
2012-05-15 20:33               ` Thomas Weber
2012-08-09 20:12               ` Wolfgang Denk

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