[PATCH 6/8] cmd: efidebug: simplify printing GUIDs

[AKASHI Takahiro]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 05:03:03PM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 1/21/22 16:20, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Heinrich,
> > 
> > On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 at 08:14, Heinrich Schuchardt
> > <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Use "%pS" to print text representations of GUIDs.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
> > > ---
> > >   cmd/efidebug.c         | 160 ++---------------------------------------
> > >   include/efi_api.h      |   8 +++
> > >   include/efi_dt_fixup.h |   4 --
> > >   include/efi_rng.h      |   4 --
> > >   lib/uuid.c             | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >   5 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 164 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > 
> > Does this blow up the image size? These strings only in the debug side before.
> 
> It was to avoid image size increase that I added
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CMD_EFIDEBUG
> 
> > 
> > Having said that, I would much rather see a string than a guid, which
> > I consider to be little more than an obfuscation.
> 
> That was my motivation. When debugging a boot failure I set DEBUG in
> lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c and reading GUIDs in the debug output was not
> helpful.

But setting DEBUG in efi_boottime.c doesn't lead to CONFIG_CMD_EFIDEBUG
being on in uuid.c. Do we want to have a more direct CONFIG?

-Takahiro Akashi

> Best regards
> 
> Heinrich
> 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Simon