console: Support a format string for stderr output
Add a console_printf_select_stderr() function so that it is not
necessary for the caller to process the format string.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
diff --git a/common/console.c b/common/console.c
index 275da2f..48586fd 100644
--- a/common/console.c
+++ b/common/console.c
@@ -359,6 +359,24 @@
console_puts_select(stderr, serial_only, s);
}
+int console_printf_select_stderr(bool serial_only, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+ char buf[CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE];
+ va_list args;
+ int ret;
+
+ va_start(args, fmt);
+
+ /* For this to work, buf must be larger than anything we ever want to
+ * print.
+ */
+ ret = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, args);
+ va_end(args);
+ console_puts_select_stderr(serial_only, buf);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
static void console_puts(int file, const char *s)
{
int i;
diff --git a/include/console.h b/include/console.h
index 57fdb08..8d0d7bb 100644
--- a/include/console.h
+++ b/include/console.h
@@ -170,6 +170,21 @@
void console_puts_select_stderr(bool serial_only, const char *s);
/**
+ * console_printf_select_stderr() - Output a formatted string to selected devs
+ *
+ * This writes to stderr only. It is useful for outputting errors. Note that it
+ * uses its own buffer, separate from the print buffer, to allow printing
+ * messages within console/stdio code
+ *
+ * @serial_only: true to output only to serial, false to output to everything
+ * else
+ * @fmt: Printf format string, followed by format arguments
+ * Return: number of characters written
+ */
+int console_printf_select_stderr(bool serial_only, const char *fmt, ...)
+ __attribute__ ((format (__printf__, 2, 3)));
+
+/**
* console_clear() - Clear the console
*
* Uses an ANSI sequence to clear the display, failing back to clearing the