[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5] Warn when the machine ID isn't passed to an ARM kernel and u-boot is compiled in debug mode. The kernel cannot boot without it.

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Igor Grinberg,

In message <4E12BF5D.6080307 at compulab.co.il> you wrote:
>
> > +	        debug("\nWarning: machid not set! Linux will not finish booting.\n\n");
> > +	}
> > +#endif
> 
> Is there a reason to close this in ifdef DEBUG? and also use debug()?
> I would print this in any case, because machid must be set for Linux to boot
> properly.
> This message will not hurt anyone (just add ~50 bytes, this is not an spl code)
> and if someone hacks Linux to boot in any case (without checking the machid),
> then he can also hack U-Boot and remove the message (if it bothers him).

I think "Warning: machid not set" should be sufficient.

Note: we should't print excessive newlines. No \n at the begin of the
string, only one at the end.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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