netdev - Re: [RFC 2/3] genetlink: pass extended error report down

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Date:   Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:12:23 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     pablo@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] genetlink: pass extended error report down

On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 11:37 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> I guess the error string must be constant and always available in
> memory in this implementation?

Yes.

> I think it would be nice to dynamically create strings (malloc,
> snprintf, etc) and have the err_str logic free it when done?

We can think about that later, but I don't actually think it makes a
lot of sense - if we point to the attribute and/or offset you really
ought to have enough info to figure out what's up.

johannes