netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] ss: Tell user about -EOPNOTSUPP for SOCK

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Date:	Fri, 20 May 2016 00:22:35 +0900
From:	Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
To:	David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@...eaurora.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>,
	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ss: Tell user about -EOPNOTSUPP for SOCK_DESTROY

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:06 PM, David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> got it. Google does not care about users; don't un-suppress failures.

The users I was trying to care about are the ones that have correctly
configured kernels. It did not seem useful to those users to litter
the dumps with error messages saying that the kernel could not close a
socket that cannot be closed.