Bootchooser has unexpected changes of variable 'remaining_attempts'

[Robert Schwebel]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 04:02:32PM +0200, Norbert Wiedmann wrote:
> after debugging a while, I found the reason:
> In file bootchooser.c, in funktion bootchooser_save(..) the call of
> 
> ret = pr_setenv(bc, "%s.remaining_attempts=%d",
>                 target->state_prefix,
>                 target->remaining_attempts);
> creates a "xxx.remaining_attempts=-1" if the variable 'remaining_attempts'
> is 0xffffffff, for example.
> 
> The type of remaining_attempts is unsigned int.
> 
> After changing the function call to
>  
> ret = pr_setenv(bc, "%s.remaining_attempts=%lu",   /* changed %d to %lu */
>                 target->state_prefix,
>                 target->remaining_attempts);
> it works fine.
> Maybe this could be fixed..., thank you.

Could you make a proper patch out of your proposal and send it here to
the mailing list? This is the usual way how change requests are reviewed
and discussed in barebox.

Thank you,

rsc
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