From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:13:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Shrink "struct object" a bit
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606171211580.5498@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <44942176.1070107@mindspring.com>



On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Philip Pokorny wrote:
> 
> A minor thing, but doesn't this mean the "report_missing" message would change
> from:
> 
> > Cannot obtain needed object ab12cdef1234567890abcd
> > while processing commit fedcbadeadbeefdeadbe
> 
> to
> 
> > Cannot obtain needed none ab12cdef1234567890abcd
> > while processing commit fedcbadeadbeefdeadbe

Yeah. I guess you could either just keep the old conditional, or just 
change the object type-name for the unspecified mode 0 to something like 
"untyped object" which would cause a much more readable errors.

		Linus