netdev - Re: [RFC 1/4] netlink: make extended ACK setting NULL-friendly

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Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:17:48 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>, daniel@...earbox.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        dsa@...ulusnetworks.com, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com,
        bblanco@...il.com, john.fastabend@...il.com,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] netlink: make extended ACK setting NULL-friendly

On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 13:53 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:13:34 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 01:06 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > 
> > > +#define NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, msg) do {		\
> > > +	struct netlink_ext_ack *_extack = (extack);	\
> > > +	static const char _msg[] = (msg);		\
> > > +							\
> > > +	if (_extack)					\
> > > +		_extack->_msg = _msg;			\
> > > +	else						\
> > > +		pr_info("%s\n", _msg);			\
> > >  } while (0)  

> I'm leaning towards dropping the else clause and never printing, that
> will add an incentive for people to convert more paths to provide the
> ext ack.  Any thoughts on that?

Personally, I'm happy with that.

johannes