netdev - Re: second wave of netlink extended ACK reporting

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Message-ID: <c75ab5ec-d33e-256d-1222-590dd22c5b08@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date:   Sun, 16 Apr 2017 08:45:02 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        nicolas.dichtel@...nd.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: Re: second wave of netlink extended ACK reporting

On 4/16/17 8:40 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> 
> 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

I have a patch for the first pass on rtnetlink doit path. plumbs the
extack parameter and covers the nlmsg_parse case.  I'll send it once
Johannes' patches go in.