netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/1] bridge: return error code when deleting Vlan

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Date:   Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:31:42 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/1] bridge: return error code when deleting
 Vlan

On 10/12/17 8:15 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> I do agree it's a bug, but there might be scripts that rely on it and
> don't check the return value when clearing vlans. They will end up with
> a partial clear and wrongly assumed state, so maybe leave the
> opportunistic delete but count if anything was actually deleted and send
> an event only then ?

+1