From a182ef5a26d2c7920e5e62f6b9e95b91a0cc8605 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2022 22:02:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Notify user if pgm->open() failes

This is supposed to fix issue #813
---
 src/main.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 6fd432ec..8bc051a9 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -1061,6 +1061,9 @@ int main(int argc, char * argv [])
 
   rc = pgm->open(pgm, port);
   if (rc < 0) {
+    avrdude_message(MSG_INFO,
+                    "%s: opening programmer \"%s\" on port \"%s\" failed\n",
+                    progname, programmer, port);
     exitrc = 1;
     pgm->ppidata = 0; /* clear all bits at exit */
     goto main_exit;