netdev - Re: [RFC] netlink: send exterr cookie on success

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Date:   Sat, 08 Apr 2017 17:50:03 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        pablo@...filter.org, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] netlink: send exterr cookie on success

On Sat, 2017-04-08 at 11:28 -0400, Jiri Benc wrote:
> Perhaps the structure should be named just "netlink_ext" or so? It
> seems it'll pick up some non-error related usage, such as the cookies
> here or, in the future, flags indicating how the message should be
> parsed.

Fair point, I'll call it netlink_ext_ack.

johannes