netdev - Re: second wave of netlink extended ACK reporting

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Message-ID: <4846bb66-d169-dba7-7a1e-0665fe41083d@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date:   Sun, 16 Apr 2017 10:55:14 -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
> 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..


I have a start to a patch for iproute2 as well. It needs some
improvements before I can send it. Should be able to get to it Monday or
Tuesday.