image_types.bbclass: Prompt error message on missing setting in UBI and UBIFS

Prompt error message to guide user add argument
MKUBIFS_ARGS and UBINIZE_ARGS on
every UBI and UBIFS image creation.

[YOCTO #11589]

(From OE-Core rev: 4a63fa70462eb5a780380b92f916cc8e295246fc)

Signed-off-by: Choong YinThong <yin.thong.choong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
index 7749b00098..f8692dc2ad 100644
--- a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
@@ -145,6 +145,12 @@ UBI_VOLNAME ?= "${MACHINE}-rootfs"
 multiubi_mkfs() {
         local mkubifs_args="$1"
         local ubinize_args="$2"
+    
+        # Added prompt error message for ubi and ubifs image creation.
+        if [ -z "$mkubifs_args"] || [ -z "$ubinize_args" ]; then
+            bbfatal "MKUBIFS_ARGS and UBINIZE_ARGS have to be set, see http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html for details"
+        fi
+    
         if [ -z "$3" ]; then
                 local vname=""
         else