netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/8] Pass extack to NETDEV_PRE

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Message-Id: <20181206.133159.931519302250382081.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 06 Dec 2018 13:31:59 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     petrm@...lanox.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...lanox.com, idosch@...lanox.com,
        dsa@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/8] Pass extack to NETDEV_PRE_UP

From: Petr Machata <petrm@...lanox.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 17:05:35 +0000

> Drivers may need to validate configuration of a device that's about to
> be upped. An example is mlxsw, which needs to check the configuration of
> a VXLAN device attached to an offloaded bridge. Should the validation
> fail, there's currently no way to communicate details of the failure to
> the user, beyond an error number.
> 
> Therefore this patch set extends the NETDEV_PRE_UP event to include
> extack, if available.
 ...

Series applied, thank you.