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From: Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] ARM: i.MX: Add bbu handler for external NAND boot
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:48:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201303121048.16318.jbe@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363080597-10510-4-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de>

Sascha Hauer wrote:
> [...]
> +               if (size_available < 0) {
> +                       printf("device is too small\n");
> +                       ret = -ENOSPC;
> +                       goto out;
> +               }
> [...]

As the user only sees bad block info when DEBUG is enabled, you should output 
more info here.
The device (or better partition?) can be too small in general, or it can be 
too small due to many bad blocks inside. IMHO it would be helpful to see more 
info here why it failed.

jbe

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-12  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-12  9:29 [PATCH] fix i.MX external NAND boot bad block handling Sascha Hauer
2013-03-12  9:29 ` [PATCH 1/4] ARM: i.MX: external nand boot: check for bad blocks Sascha Hauer
2013-03-12  9:29 ` [PATCH 2/4] ARM: head: Add some space behind the image header Sascha Hauer
2013-03-12  9:41   ` Juergen Beisert
2013-03-12  9:29 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM: i.MX: Add bbu handler for external NAND boot Sascha Hauer
2013-03-12  9:48   ` Juergen Beisert [this message]
2013-03-12 10:05     ` Sascha Hauer
2013-03-12 10:08       ` Juergen Beisert
2013-03-12  9:29 ` [PATCH 4/4] ARM: i.MX pcm043: register external nand boot handler Sascha Hauer

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