From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lucho@ionkov.net, ericvh@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 15:01:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1209679278.12461.268.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080501214138.GT29330@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 00:41 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-01 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-01 21:08 Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 21:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-01 21:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 21:26 ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-01 21:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 21:41 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-01 22:01 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2008-05-01 22:07 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-01 22:32 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-05-01 21:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 22:29 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-05-01 21:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 22:15 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-01 22:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-02 11:39 ` Enrico Weigelt
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