Dear Sam,
In message <20180717220912.11358-1-semen.protse...@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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