From 256b6703f18b7b36df45da344446c880237a835c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Barker <pbarker@barker.dropbear.id.au>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 13:20:53 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] AP_InternalError: keep count of number of errors having
 occured

---
 libraries/AP_InternalError/AP_InternalError.cpp | 4 +++-
 libraries/AP_InternalError/AP_InternalError.h   | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libraries/AP_InternalError/AP_InternalError.cpp b/libraries/AP_InternalError/AP_InternalError.cpp
index 52217a3289..a8123276cf 100644
--- a/libraries/AP_InternalError/AP_InternalError.cpp
+++ b/libraries/AP_InternalError/AP_InternalError.cpp
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ void AP_InternalError::error(const AP_InternalError::error_t e) {
     }
 #endif
     internal_errors |= uint32_t(e);
+    total_error_count++;
+
     hal.util->persistent_data.internal_errors = internal_errors;
-    hal.util->persistent_data.internal_error_count++;
+    hal.util->persistent_data.internal_error_count = total_error_count;
 }
 
 
diff --git a/libraries/AP_InternalError/AP_InternalError.h b/libraries/AP_InternalError/AP_InternalError.h
index 770a03a325..997439af82 100644
--- a/libraries/AP_InternalError/AP_InternalError.h
+++ b/libraries/AP_InternalError/AP_InternalError.h
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ public:
     };
 
     void error(const AP_InternalError::error_t error);
+    uint32_t count() const { return total_error_count; }
 
     // internal_errors - return mask of internal errors seen
     uint32_t errors() const {
@@ -64,6 +65,8 @@ private:
 
     // bitmask holding errors from internal_error_t
     uint32_t internal_errors;
+
+    uint32_t total_error_count;
 };
 
 namespace AP {