Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p

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From: Daniel Walker

Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p

Date: Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 3:01 pm

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 00:41 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:

quoted text> > The check that's in -rt for this uses BUILD_BUG_ON(), and it's extremely
> > cryptic when there is a failure .. Most people will be baffled why the
> > build stopped. If a check went into mainline it should at least give you
> > some sort of idea what's happening ..
> 
> A cryptic compile error is _much_ better than a hard to find runtime 
> error.

I think we ultimately want something informative if it's possible.
That's what I want.

Daniel

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[PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p , Steven Rostedt, (Thu May 1, 2:08 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p, Andrew Morton, (Thu May 1, 2:19 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p, Steven Rostedt, (Thu May 1, 2:25 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p, Daniel Walker, (Thu May 1, 2:26 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p, Steven Rostedt, (Thu May 1, 2:38 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p, Adrian Bunk, (Thu May 1, 2:41 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p, Steven Rostedt, (Thu May 1, 2:46 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p, Steven Rostedt, (Thu May 1, 2:50 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p, Daniel Walker, (Thu May 1, 3:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p, Christoph Hellwig, (Thu May 1, 3:03 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p, Andrew Morton, (Thu May 1, 3:07 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p, Andrew Morton, (Thu May 1, 3:15 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p, Alexey Dobriyan, (Thu May 1, 3:29 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p, Alexey Dobriyan, (Thu May 1, 3:32 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p, Enrico Weigelt, (Fri May 2, 4:39 am)


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