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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 14:35:09 -0800
From: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@...ux.intel.com>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
Netfilter Development Mailinglist
<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] netlink broadcast return value
On Sunday 01 February 2009, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> == genlmsg_multicast (calls nlmsg_multicast) ==
> net/netlink/genetlink.c : ignores return value
> drivers/acpi/event.c : printk error
> fs/dquot.c : printk error (if err != -ESRCH)
> net/wireless/nl80211.c : ignores return value
>
> In short, I think that the change that I'm proposing would also require
> to fix some netlink_broadcast() clients to skip ENOBUFS errors: they are
> not meaningful for them since they assume that Netlink is unreliable and
> so the return value does not provide any useful information.
You are missing a few callers in net/wimax. Which kernel version did you
do the analysis on?
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Inaky
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