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[v2,1/5] mtd: mtdpart: add debug prints to partition parser.

Message ID d787def4ffb9cf83923cdc817cb462500abd8640.1438340815.git.hramrach@gmail.com
State Superseded
Commit 8e2c992b59fcb5e56e3667f5c30c7d26fbbf14a2
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Commit Message

Michal Suchanek July 31, 2015, 11:19 a.m. UTC
The probe of a mtd device can fail when a partition parser returns
error. The failure due to partition parsing can be quite mysterious when
multiple partitioning schemes are comiled in and any of them can fail
the probe.

Add debug prints which show what parsers were tried and what they
returned.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com>
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v2:

 - reformat debug messages
---
 drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
index cafdb88..31888c2 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
@@ -759,12 +759,17 @@  int parse_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *master, const char *const *types,
 		types = default_mtd_part_types;
 
 	for ( ; ret <= 0 && *types; types++) {
+		pr_debug("%s: parsing partitions %s\n", master->name, *types);
 		parser = get_partition_parser(*types);
 		if (!parser && !request_module("%s", *types))
 			parser = get_partition_parser(*types);
+		pr_debug("%s: got parser %s\n", master->name,
+			 parser ? parser->name : NULL);
 		if (!parser)
 			continue;
 		ret = (*parser->parse_fn)(master, pparts, data);
+		pr_debug("%s: parser %s: %i\n",
+			 master->name, parser->name, ret);
 		put_partition_parser(parser);
 		if (ret > 0) {
 			printk(KERN_NOTICE "%d %s partitions found on MTD device %s\n",