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

[Daniel Walker]

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

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