netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: vrf: Add extack messages for newlink failures

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Message-Id: <20170807.151652.231418992480952915.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:16:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsahern@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: vrf: Add extack messages for newlink
 failures

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Date: Mon,  7 Aug 2017 10:08:10 -0700

> Add extack error messages for failure paths creating vrf devices. Once
> extack support is added to iproute2, we go from the unhelpful:
>     $  ip li add foobar type vrf
>     RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
> 
> to:
>     $ ip li add foobar type vrf
>     Error: VRF table id is missing
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>

Applied, thanks David.