[PATCH 3/3] Return a non-zero exit code if an error occurs during dts parsing.
David Gibson
david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Fri Jan 4 15:30:33 EST 2008
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:43:33PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> Previously, only failure to parse caused the reading of the tree to fail;
> semantic errors that called yyerror() but not YYERROR only emitted a message,
> without signalling make to stop the build.
This one, however, I don't like.
[snip]
> diff --git a/dtc.h b/dtc.h
> index 9b89689..cba9d28 100644
> --- a/dtc.h
> +++ b/dtc.h
> @@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ struct reserve_info *add_reserve_entry(struct reserve_info *list,
> struct boot_info {
> struct reserve_info *reservelist;
> struct node *dt; /* the device tree */
> + int error;
> };
This is unequivocally wrong. boot_info should have information about
the contents of the blob, not state information like the error.
If you're going to use an ugly global, then use it everywhere.
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