[PATCH 1/3] state: provide an error message when an error occurs

Juergen Borleis jbe at pengutronix.de
Wed Aug 16 05:27:07 PDT 2017


A simple typo makes the state framework fail, but without an error
message the developer is lost in the dark.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Borleis <jbe at pengutronix.de>
---
 common/state/state.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/common/state/state.c b/common/state/state.c
index 121ba0c6d..fc822b21b 100644
--- a/common/state/state.c
+++ b/common/state/state.c
@@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ static int state_convert_node_variable(struct state *state,
 
 	vtype = state_find_type_by_name(type_name);
 	if (!vtype) {
+		dev_dbg(&state->dev, "Error: invalid variable type '%s'\n", type_name);
 		ret = -ENOENT;
 		goto out_free;
 	}
-- 
2.11.0




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