[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] firmware-utils mktplinkfw: print amount of exceeding bytes

Stephan Maka stephan at spaceboyz.net
Mon Jul 13 10:16:05 EDT 2015


This is very useful for trimming images towards 4 MiB flash size.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Maka <stephan at spaceboyz.net>
---
 tools/firmware-utils/src/mktplinkfw.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/firmware-utils/src/mktplinkfw.c b/tools/firmware-utils/src/mktplinkfw.c
index 09536c6..850aff4 100644
--- a/tools/firmware-utils/src/mktplinkfw.c
+++ b/tools/firmware-utils/src/mktplinkfw.c
@@ -657,10 +657,10 @@ static int check_options(void)
 	kernel_len = kernel_info.file_size;
 
 	if (combined) {
-		if (kernel_info.file_size >
-		    fw_max_len - sizeof(struct fw_header)) {
+		int exceed_bytes = kernel_info.file_size - (fw_max_len - sizeof(struct fw_header));
+		if (exceed_bytes > 0) {
 			if (!ignore_size) {
-				ERR("kernel image is too big");
+				ERR("kernel image is too big by %i bytes", exceed_bytes);
 				return -1;
 			}
 			layout->fw_max_len = sizeof(struct fw_header) +
@@ -684,20 +684,20 @@ static int check_options(void)
 
 			DBG("kernel length aligned to %u", kernel_len);
 
-			if (kernel_len + rootfs_info.file_size >
-			    fw_max_len - sizeof(struct fw_header)) {
-				ERR("images are too big");
+			int exceed_bytes = kernel_len + rootfs_info.file_size - (fw_max_len - sizeof(struct fw_header));
+			if (exceed_bytes > 0) {
+				ERR("images are too big by %i bytes", exceed_bytes);
 				return -1;
 			}
 		} else {
-			if (kernel_info.file_size >
-			    rootfs_ofs - sizeof(struct fw_header)) {
+			int exceed_bytes = kernel_info.file_size - (rootfs_ofs - sizeof(struct fw_header));
+			if (exceed_bytes > 0) {
 				ERR("kernel image is too big");
 				return -1;
 			}
 
-			if (rootfs_info.file_size >
-			    (fw_max_len - rootfs_ofs)) {
+			exceed_bytes = rootfs_info.file_size - (fw_max_len - rootfs_ofs);
+			if (exceed_bytes > 0) {
 				ERR("rootfs image is too big");
 				return -1;
 			}
-- 
2.1.4
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