netdev - Re: [PATCH net] devlink: Fix error handling in param and info

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Date:   Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:27:26 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@...adcom.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] devlink: Fix error handling in param and info_get
 dumpit cb

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 03:05:54PM +0530, Vasundhara Volam wrote:
> If any of the param or info_get op returns error, dumpit cb is
> skipping to dump remaining params or info_get ops for all the
> drivers.
> 
> Instead skip only for the param/info_get op which returned error
> and continue to dump remaining information, except if the return
> code is EMSGSIZE.

Hi Vasundhara

How do we get to see something did fail? If it failed, it failed for a
reason, and we want to know.

What is your real use case here? What is failing, and why are you
O.K. to skip this failure?

     Andrew