netdev - second wave of netlink extended ACK reporting

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Message-ID: <826de765-dd18-f6a3-8e37-7b55398ad99b@mojatatu.com>
Date:   Sun, 16 Apr 2017 10:40:59 -0400
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>, dev@...nvswitch.org
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        pablo@...filter.org, Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Subject: second wave of netlink extended ACK reporting

Johannes or anybody else working on it?
i.e one which sends the extack to the bowels of callees
so we can return meaningful messages
example: rtnetlink::doit() or equivalent seems to be a candidate for
taking it as a param
For things that call netlink_ack it may be easier if they create
the extack.
For dumps it makes it tricky since their lifetime is much
longer..

cheers,
jamal