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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kconfig: display an error message when aborting
Mike Frysinger napsal(a):
> 2009/11/26 Michal Marek
>> On 25.11.2009 05:48, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> If the Kconfig option causes an open() failure (like one that starts with
>>> an underscore), there should be an error message shown since we're going
>>> to be exiting with an error code. Otherwise, the reason for the failure
>>> can really only be diagnosed with strace or something similar.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
>>> ---
>>> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 2 ++
>>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
>>> index b55e72f..e2644b4 100644
>>> --- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
>>> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
>>> @@ -640,6 +640,8 @@ static int conf_split_config(void)
>>> fd = open(path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0644);
>>> if (fd == -1) {
>>> if (errno != ENOENT) {
>>> + conf_warning("sym '%s' with path '%s': %s",
>>> + sym->name, path, strerror(errno));
>>> res = 1;
>>> break;
>>> }
>> I agree that there definitely needs to be some error reporting (and not
>> only here but in many more places, look e.g. at conf_write() or
>> conf_write_autoconf()), but why use conf_warning() for this? It will
>> prefix the error message with "include/config/auto.conf:<last lineno>",
>> which has nothing to do with the path that could not be opened.
>
> no it doesnt. it prefixes the config file name which i think is relevant.
> .config:1871:warning: sym '_BF548' with path '/bf548.h': Permission denied

Well, it prints either ".config" or "include/config/auto.conf",
depending whether there was a successful silentoldconfig pass before and
the latter file exists. But the number is the number of lines of the
respective file.

Michal


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