[U-Boot] [PATCH] ubi: help message correction

Andrzej Wolski awolski at poczta.fm
Sun Jul 12 14:40:29 CEST 2009


> In message <h3bhhv$l6g$1 at ger.gmane.org> you wrote:
>> Fix incorrect information about size units.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrzej Wolski <awolski at poczta.fm>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/common/cmd_ubi.c b/common/cmd_ubi.c
>> index bbca389..d1653b1 100644
>> --- a/common/cmd_ubi.c
>> +++ b/common/cmd_ubi.c
>> @@ -608,6 +608,6 @@ U_BOOT_CMD(ubi, 6, 1, do_ubi,
>>   		" - Remove volume\n"
>>   	"[Legends]\n"
>>   	" volume: charater name\n"
>> -	" size: KiB, MiB, GiB, and bytes\n"
>> +	" size: hex value\n"
>>   	" type: s[tatic] or d[ynamic] (default=dynamic)"
>>   );
> 
> This is IMHO not a helpful help message.
> 
> First, it is reduncant, as all input in U-Boot is in hex  format.  So
> why  repeat that information. And "size: value" - what does that tell
> me? Would it not be good to mention the unit? Is it in KiB, MiB, GiB,
> bytes, blocks, or whatever?

This is size in bytes. Original message was probably based on Linux 
mtd-utils where size in KiB, MiB, etc. can be specified. This is not 
true in U-Boot where all input is in hex, so this message have to be 
corrected. If you think "hex value" is not helpful, can you suggest 
something better? Maybe just remove size entry?

Regards,
Andrzej Wolski



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