netdev - Re: second wave of netlink extended ACK reporting

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Message-ID: <280d0c61-4506-f721-1536-4afb2daabef8@mojatatu.com>
Date:   Sun, 16 Apr 2017 10:48:52 -0400
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.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 17-04-16 10:45 AM, David Ahern wrote:
> 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.
>

Excellent. His patches seem to be in. Seems
commit ce07183282975026716107d36fd3f5f93de76668
is a good point?

cheers,
jamal