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authorIrina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>2015-07-24 16:28:06 +0300
committerJonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>2015-08-02 18:39:27 +0100
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tools: iio: print error message when buffer enable fails
Running generic_buffer without enabling any channel of the sensor will fail without printing any error message. Add an error message that indicates buffer enable failed. Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com> Acked-by: Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/iio')
-rw-r--r--tools/iio/generic_buffer.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/iio/generic_buffer.c b/tools/iio/generic_buffer.c
index 32f389ebb94d..9f7b85bf6ada 100644
--- a/tools/iio/generic_buffer.c
+++ b/tools/iio/generic_buffer.c
@@ -364,8 +364,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
/* Enable the buffer */
ret = write_sysfs_int("enable", buf_dir_name, 1);
- if (ret < 0)
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ "Failed to enable buffer: %s\n", strerror(-ret));
goto error_free_buf_dir_name;
+ }
scan_size = size_from_channelarray(channels, num_channels);
data = malloc(scan_size * buf_len);