Re: [PATCH] init: make init failures more explicit

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On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Michael Opdenacker
<michael.opdenacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +       if (ret && ret != -ENOENT) {
> +               pr_err("Starting init: %s exists but couldn't execute it\n",

I think it makes sense to also print the value of ret here.
Apart from your -ENOEXEC case, peeking a bit around, it can be also be
-EINVAL, -ENOMEM (debug binary too big for small embedded system?),
-EACCES, -E2BIG, ...

> +                      init_filename);
> +       }

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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