[U-Boot] [PATCH] UBIFS: Improve error message when reading superblock failed
Albert ARIBAUD
albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Mon Feb 20 11:01:24 CET 2012
Hi Bernhard,
Le 20/02/2012 10:11, Bernhard Walle a écrit :
> Am 20.02.2012 09:59, schrieb Albert ARIBAUD:
>>
>> Dry numbers as error messages are better than no error messages but only
>> marginally IMO. Isn't there a way to emit a readable message re malloc
>> instead of emitting an int value?
>
> Well, I'm not familiar with the u-boot codebase. Does u-boot have a
> strerror table? How is it handled on other places? Should an error
> message printed directly before returning -ENOMEM?
I don't think there is an strerror() API. But at least, if the newly
printed int uses errno values, then instead of '... %d!", you could
print "... errno=%d", which would give some hint to the reader.
> Regards,
> Bernhard
Amicalement,
--
Albert.
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