netdev - Re: [RFC 4/5] netlink: prepare validate extack setting for recursion

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Date:   Wed, 19 Sep 2018 11:44:17 +0200
From:   Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/5] netlink: prepare validate extack setting for
 recursion

On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 11:25:17 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Now, with this patch, all I'm doing is changing the internal behaviour
> of nla_parse/nla_validate - externally, it still overwrites any existing
> message if an error occurs, but internally it keeps the inner-most
> error.

Ah, okay, that answers my question about putting the flag into the
ext_ack struct, too.

It may still be worthwhile to have a mechanism for prioritizing certain
extack messages over another ones but it's clearly out of scope of this
patchset.

The patchset looks good to me. Just include the description you just
wrote in the commit message :-)

Thanks!

 Jiri