Hi,

I noticed that block device commands like "ls" fail to give any error messages in some cases. For example, something like

-> ls FOOBAR 1:1 / ->

will terminate without the slightest hint that FOOBAR is some device type it does not know.

Following the call chain I see this:

"ls" command -> do_ls (...) -> fs_set_blk_dev(...) -> blk_get_device_part_str()

"disk/part.c":

431 int blk_get_device_part_str(const char *ifname, const char *dev_part_str, 432 struct blk_desc **dev_desc, 433 disk_partition_t *info, int allow_whole_dev) ... 450 if (0 == strcmp(ifname, "hostfs")) { ... 466 } ... 474 if (0 == strcmp(ifname, "ubi")) { ... 488 } 513 /* Look up the device */ 514 dev = blk_get_device_by_str(ifname, dev_str, dev_desc); 515 if (dev < 0) 516 goto cleanup;

No error messages get printed here, but I think these are mandatory in such a case.

Stephen, this code was added as part of your commit:

commit 10a37fd7a40826c43a63591855346adf1a1ac02d Author: Stephen Warren swarren@nvidia.com Date: Fri Sep 21 09:50:57 2012 +0000

disk: get_device_and_partition() "auto" partition and cleanup

Can you think of any strong reason _not_ to issue a proper error message here?

[From the user perspective it would also be nice to have a way to find out which device types are actually supported in a given U-Boot binary. Or is there such a tool?]

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk