[U-Boot] [PATCH] net: Add \n before warning message so it prints on a new line.

Philip Balister philip at opensdr.com
Thu Sep 8 17:04:56 CEST 2011


On 09/08/2011 11:01 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hi Philip,
>
> Le 07/09/2011 13:57, Philip Balister a écrit :
>> Signed-off-by: Philip Balister<philip at opensdr.com>
>> ---
>> net/eth.c | 2 +-
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/eth.c b/net/eth.c
>> index dbd1e2d..67a8039 100644
>> --- a/net/eth.c
>> +++ b/net/eth.c
>> @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ int eth_initialize(bd_t *bis)
>> puts("\nWarning: eth device name has a space!\n");
>>
>> if (eth_write_hwaddr(dev, "eth", eth_number))
>> - puts("Warning: failed to set MAC address\n");
>> + puts("\nWarning: failed to set MAC address\n");
>
> I believe warning messages with \n on more than one end are frowned upon.

Look closely at the patch, the warning message above has to do the same 
thing. Without the leading \n on the message, it prints directly after 
the ethernet chip name, with no space. This is not right. I chose to 
copy the existing code, rather than add a leading space.

Philip

>
>> eth_number++;
>> dev = dev->next;
>
> Amicalement,



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