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[U-Boot,1/5] tools: dumpimage: Provide more feedback on error

Message ID 20190126023154.19749-1-martyn.welch@collabora.com
State Accepted
Commit 57a608e9694045c84ef63878c2bb57a30a0c6800
Delegated to: Tom Rini
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Series [U-Boot,1/5] tools: dumpimage: Provide more feedback on error | expand

Commit Message

Martyn Welch Jan. 26, 2019, 2:31 a.m. UTC
The dumpimage utility errors out in a number of places without providing
sufficient feedback to allow the user to easily determine what they have
done wrong. Add addtional error messages to make the cause of the failure
more obvious.

Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@collabora.com>
---

 tools/dumpimage.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Tom Rini Feb. 3, 2019, 1:09 a.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 02:31:50AM +0000, Martyn Welch wrote:

> The dumpimage utility errors out in a number of places without providing
> sufficient feedback to allow the user to easily determine what they have
> done wrong. Add addtional error messages to make the cause of the failure
> more obvious.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@collabora.com>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
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diff --git a/tools/dumpimage.c b/tools/dumpimage.c
index 7115df04c1..2847e6c0b4 100644
--- a/tools/dumpimage.c
+++ b/tools/dumpimage.c
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@  int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		case 'T':
 			params.type = genimg_get_type_id(optarg);
 			if (params.type < 0) {
+				fprintf(stderr, "%s: Invalid type\n",
+					params.cmdname);
 				usage();
 			}
 			break;
@@ -101,8 +103,10 @@  int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (optind >= argc)
+	if (optind >= argc) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "%s: image file missing\n", params.cmdname);
 		usage();
+	}
 
 	/* set tparams as per input type_id */
 	tparams = imagetool_get_type(params.type);
@@ -117,8 +121,11 @@  int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	 * as per image type to be generated/listed
 	 */
 	if (tparams->check_params) {
-		if (tparams->check_params(&params))
+		if (tparams->check_params(&params)) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "%s: Parameter check failed\n",
+				params.cmdname);
 			usage();
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (params.iflag)