[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/3] common: cmd_part: Error prints on failures

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Mon Jun 15 17:00:58 CEST 2015


On 06/13/2015 02:38 AM, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> When a failure occurs when selecting the device or partition, the user should be
> notified through an error print.

> diff --git a/common/cmd_part.c b/common/cmd_part.c

> @@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ static int do_part_uuid(int argc, char * const argv[])
>   		return CMD_RET_USAGE;
>
>   	part = get_device_and_partition(argv[0], argv[1], &dev_desc, &info, 0);
> -	if (part < 0)
> +	if (part < 0) {
> +		error("Invalid device and/or partition\n");

A very quick look at the implementation of get_device_and_partition() 
(and all the other relevant functions for this patch) implies the 
implementation already prints an error message. If you found a case 
where that isn't true, I think those functions should be fixed, not all 
their callers.


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