[RFC 0/2] Do not stop with an error when mkimage fails

[Heiko Thiery]

Hi Wolfgang,

Am Do., 11. Nov. 2021 um 13:24 Uhr schrieb Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>:
>
> Dear Heiko,
>
> In message <CAEyMn7Y7t63GwPLNd-CSZiHanE_UmpOReYS1cFAz8sq0M=EYmA at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry, but this makes no sense to me.  If there is an error, it
> > > should be reported and - if possible - handled.  If this is not
> > > possible, then the correct thing is to abort.  Ignoring errors and
> > > trying to continue is always the worst thing to do.
> >
> > The only reason I want to introduce this is because I want to have my
> > imx8mq board built by CI. This board needs an external HDMI firmware
> > which is used by mkimage. But because this firmware is not available
> > in the CI build, it comes to the abort. With other boards it is also
> > so that in the CI external blobs are not available and these make
> > nevertheless without error a binman run. In this case only a warning
> > is output.
> >
> > I know this is not a perfect solution but I don't know how to get my
> > board merged without doing this kind of workaround for the U-Boot CI.
>
> It's not only not a perfect solution, it is the intentional
> introduction of a bug, and thus totally unacceptable.
>
> If there is a file missing in the CI, then add/create it there.
>
> But do remove necessary error handling which would cause hard to
> detec failures when for normal use.

I understand your attitude and am meanwhile also of this opinion. The
idea with the creation of dummy files I also had. I think we should go
in this direction. Everything else would probably be connected with
bigger changes.

-- 
Heiko