netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Add support for warnings to extack

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Date:   Sun, 18 Mar 2018 10:11:52 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Alexander Aring <aring@...atatu.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Add support for warnings to extack

On 3/16/18 1:23 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> Currently we have the limitation that warnings cannot be reported though
> extack. For example, when tc flower failed to get offloaded but got
> installed on software datapath. The hardware failure is not fatal and
> thus extack is not even shared with the driver, so the error is simply
> omitted from any logging.

If this set ends up moving forward, the above statement needs to be
corrected: extack allows non-error messages to be sent back to the user,
so the above must be talking about some other limitation local to tc.