Re: [PATCH 8/8] tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Output success/failed for command output

From: Srinivas Pandruvada
Date: Tue Sep 03 2019 - 18:18:46 EST


On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 11:37 -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> Command output has confusing data, returning "0" on success. For
> example
>
> > # ./intel-speed-select -c 14 turbo-freq enable
>
> Intel(R) Speed Select Technology
> Executing on CPU model:106[0x6a]
> package-1
> die-0
> cpu-14
> turbo-freq
> enable:0
>
> To avoid confusion change the command output to 'success' or
> 'failed'.
We need to fix also help in the function usage() to match new
implementation

" printf("\t\t\tFor Set commands, status is 0 for success and
rest for failures\n");
"

Thanks,
Srinivas

> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Arcari <darcari@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select/isst-display.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select/isst-display.c
> b/tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select/isst-display.c
> index 890a01bfee4b..8500cf2997a6 100644
> --- a/tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select/isst-display.c
> +++ b/tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select/isst-display.c
> @@ -519,7 +519,10 @@ void isst_display_result(int cpu, FILE *outf,
> char *feature, char *cmd,
> snprintf(header, sizeof(header), "%s", feature);
> format_and_print(outf, 4, header, NULL);
> snprintf(header, sizeof(header), "%s", cmd);
> - snprintf(value, sizeof(value), "%d", result);
> + if (!result)
> + snprintf(value, sizeof(value), "success");
> + else
> + snprintf(value, sizeof(value), "failed(error %d)",
> result);
> format_and_print(outf, 5, header, value);
>
> format_and_print(outf, 1, NULL, NULL);