[PATCH v2] environment: "wrong magic" gives the impression of an error

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Sun Sep 25 23:05:15 PDT 2016


On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 09:16:34PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> From 15e7ff689cfda27eab10aacda5c26a1ba47979ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Sam Ravnborg <srn at skov.dk>
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 06:54:42 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] environment: "wrong magic" give the impression of an
>  error
> 
> Introduce a more soft wording when the magic of
> the superblock does not match.
> Include a hint to the typical reason "(envfs never written?)"
> 
> This prevents a "what is wrong?" moment when looking at
> the boot log.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org>
> ---

Applied, thanks

Sascha

> 
> v2:
> Dropped change in envfs_load_data(). envfs_load_data() is used
> to traverse the inodes and if we reach this far we
> have encountered a real error which should be reported.
> Thanks to Sascha for spottign this mistake!
> 
> 	Sam
> 
>  common/environment.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/environment.c b/common/environment.c
> index db127d7..c9cef63 100644
> --- a/common/environment.c
> +++ b/common/environment.c
> @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(envfs_save);
>  static int envfs_check_super(struct envfs_super *super, size_t *size)
>  {
>  	if (ENVFS_32(super->magic) != ENVFS_MAGIC) {
> -		printf("envfs: wrong magic\n");
> +		printf("envfs: no envfs (magic mismatch) - envfs newer written?\n");
>  		return -EIO;
>  	}
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
> 

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