
18 Jul
2018
18 Jul
'18
8:19 a.m.
Dear Sam,
In message 20180717220912.11358-1-semen.protsenko@linaro.org you wrote:
This is just a draft to discuss ideas related to "Make U-Boot log great again" thread.
With this patch we will have something like this:
Loading Environment from FAT... Failed (-5) Loading Environment from MMC... OK
instead of this:
Loading Environment from FAT... MMC: no card present ** Bad device mmc 0 ** Failed (-5) Loading Environment from MMC... OK
Why do you think an error message "Failed (-5)" looks great?
From a user's point of view, the "MMC: no card present"
is _much_ better (but of course it could still be improved).
Printing cryptic error codes has never been a good idea and is definitly not a "great" idea.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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