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diff --git a/commands/mw.c b/commands/mw.c
index 3ed6c820d0..915f549216 100644
--- a/commands/mw.c
+++ b/commands/mw.c
@@ -1,19 +1,5 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (c) 2011 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>, Pengutronix
- *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
- * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- */
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2011 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>, Pengutronix
/*
* Memory Functions
@@ -53,8 +39,10 @@ static int do_mem_mw(int argc, char *argv[])
adr = strtoull_suffix(argv[optind++], NULL, 0);
fd = open_and_lseek(filename, mode | O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, adr);
- if (fd < 0)
+ if (fd < 0) {
+ printf("Could not open \"%s\": %m\n", filename);
return 1;
+ }
while (optind < argc) {
u8 val8;
@@ -124,12 +112,17 @@ BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_OPT ("-l", "long access (32 bit)")
BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_OPT ("-q", "quad access (64 bit)")
BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_OPT ("-d FILE", "write file (default /dev/mem)")
BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_OPT ("-x", "swap bytes")
+BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("")
+BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("Memory regions can be specified in two different forms: START+SIZE")
+BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("or START-END, If START is omitted it defaults to 0x100")
+BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("Sizes can be specified as decimal, or if prefixed with 0x as hexadecimal.")
+BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("An optional suffix of k, M or G is for kbytes, Megabytes or Gigabytes.")
BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_END
BAREBOX_CMD_START(mw)
.cmd = do_mem_mw,
BAREBOX_CMD_DESC("memory write")
- BAREBOX_CMD_OPTS("[-bwldx] REGION DATA...")
+ BAREBOX_CMD_OPTS("[-bwlqx] [-d FILE] REGION DATA...")
BAREBOX_CMD_GROUP(CMD_GRP_MEM)
BAREBOX_CMD_HELP(cmd_mw_help)
BAREBOX_CMD_END