netdev - Re: [RFC 0/3] netlink: extended error reporting

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Date:   Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:47:39 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] netlink: extended error reporting

On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 21:45 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> 
> We only need to store the pointer to the attribute in the error
> container structure. We can calculate the offset from nl_err() by
> pasing the skbuff as parameter there, right?

Ah, that's a good point, we could store the nlattr pointer and
calculate the offset later. I'll need to try this, but yeah, good idea!

johannes