Hi Wolfgang, Am Do., 11. Nov. 2021 um 13:24 Uhr schrieb Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de>: > > Dear Heiko, > > In message > <CAEyMn7Y7t63GwPLNd-CSZiHanE_UmpOReYS1cFAz8sq0M=e...@mail.gmail.com> you > wrote: > > > > > Sorry, but this makes no sense to me. If there is an error, it > > > should be reported and - if possible - handled. If this is not > > > possible, then the correct thing is to abort. Ignoring errors and > > > trying to continue is always the worst thing to do. > > > > The only reason I want to introduce this is because I want to have my > > imx8mq board built by CI. This board needs an external HDMI firmware > > which is used by mkimage. But because this firmware is not available > > in the CI build, it comes to the abort. With other boards it is also > > so that in the CI external blobs are not available and these make > > nevertheless without error a binman run. In this case only a warning > > is output. > > > > I know this is not a perfect solution but I don't know how to get my > > board merged without doing this kind of workaround for the U-Boot CI. > > It's not only not a perfect solution, it is the intentional > introduction of a bug, and thus totally unacceptable. > > If there is a file missing in the CI, then add/create it there. > > But do remove necessary error handling which would cause hard to > detec failures when for normal use.
I understand your attitude and am meanwhile also of this opinion. The idea with the creation of dummy files I also had. I think we should go in this direction. Everything else would probably be connected with bigger changes. -- Heiko
