netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 iproute2] lib: Dump ext-ack string by default

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Date:   Wed, 9 Aug 2017 09:15:09 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 iproute2] lib: Dump ext-ack string by default

On Wed,  9 Aug 2017 08:43:27 -0700
David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com> wrote:

> In time, errfn can be implemented for link, route, etc commands to
> give a much more detailed response (e.g., point to the attribute
> that failed). Doing so is much more complicated to process the
> message and convert attribute ids to names.
> 
> In any case the error string returned by the kernel should be dumped
> to the user, so make that happen now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>

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