netdev - Re: [RFC 0/4] xdp: use netlink extended ACK reporting

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Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:05:28 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
To:     David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        johannes@...solutions.net, daniel@...earbox.net,
        alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, bblanco@...il.com,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] xdp: use netlink extended ACK reporting

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:53:35 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 4/25/17 2:06 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 
> > Also - is anyone working on adding proper extack support to iproute2?
> > The code I have right now is a bit of a hack...  
> 
> This is what I have done:
>     https://github.com/dsahern/iproute2/commits/ext-ack
> 
> Basically, added the parsing code and then a new rtnl_talk_extack
> function that takes a callback to invoke with the extack data. The last
> patch (of 3) purposely breaks ip set link mtu -- sending the mtu as a
> u16 rather than a u32 just to work on the plumbing for parsing the
> returned message:
> 
> $ ip li set dummy1 mtu 1490
> Error with rtnetlink attribute IFLA_MTU
> 
> If an errmsg is returned it is printed as well.

Great, that's much better than what I have.  It will make the XDP patch
for iproute2 pretty trivial :)