Device Drivers Which Include mkdir("/dev")

[Gedare Bloom]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 11:32 PM Sebastian Huber
<sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>
> On 18/02/2021 21:08, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>
> >> Grrr.. I've looked again at the code and it is all Gaisler code doing something
> >> like mkdir("/dev/leonXXX"). It really could fail. This should be a fatal error
> >> and would seem to indicate that we need a grlib category of fatal BSP/driver
> >> errors.
> > Given the complexity of grlib, that would make some sense. Although
> > maybe we can make it a little more generic... FATAL_THIRD_PARTY_DRIVER
> > errors might be nicer on them, and can be reused
> >
> Maybe we should add a generic low overhead panic function. It should
> uniquely identify the error source. For this we could use the return
> address of a panic helper. For example:
>
> RTEMS_NO_RETURN void rtems_game_over( void )
>
> {
>
>    rtems_fatal( RTEMS_GAME_OVER, (uintptr_t) __builtin_frame_address( 0 ) );
>
> }
>

This seems like a good idea. The name is a bit cheeky perhaps. I might
suggest "unknown source" or something a little more descriptive of the
condition for using this call?

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