netdev - Re: [patch net-next] net: devlink: don't ignore errors during dumpit

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Message-Id: <20191004.151534.1526685419014118626.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:15:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com,
        andrew@...n.ch, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] net: devlink: don't ignore errors during
 dumpit

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Fri,  4 Oct 2019 11:50:12 +0200

> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> Currently, some dumpit function may end-up with error which is not
> -EMSGSIZE and this error is silently ignored. Use does not have clue
> that something wrong happened. Instead of silent ignore, propagate
> the error to user.
> 
> Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>

Applied.