From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:26:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] convert object type handling from a string to a number
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.0.82.0702271225330.29426@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702270816350.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So to be portable, and to be safe, you really should make the error values 
> part of the enum, ie you should add a
> 
> 	OBJ_ERROR = -1,
> 
> if you want to make sure that the enum really can hold a negative number!

Fair enough.  That's what I suggested in another email, i.e. to redefine 
OBJ_BAD = -1.


Nicolas