[PATCH 3/6] [MTD-UTILS] nanddump: Pass Real Names as Arguments to perror

Grant Erickson gerickson at nuovations.com
Mon Sep 8 02:45:36 EDT 2008


Pass the MTD device node and dump file name as arguments to perror
rather than more ambigous, static messages on open failures.

Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson <gerickson at nuovations.com>
---
 nanddump.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nanddump.c b/nanddump.c
index 8c7175c..168fbbb 100644
--- a/nanddump.c
+++ b/nanddump.c
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ int main(int argc, char * const argv[])
 
 	/* Open MTD device */
 	if ((fd = open(mtddev, O_RDONLY)) == -1) {
-		perror("open flash");
+		perror(mtddev);
 		exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
 
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ int main(int argc, char * const argv[])
 	if (!dumpfile) {
 		ofd = STDOUT_FILENO;
 	} else if ((ofd = open(dumpfile, O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT, 0644))== -1) {
-		perror ("open outfile");
+		perror (dumpfile);
 		close(fd);
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
-- 
1.6.0.1




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