netdev - Re: [patch net-next 2/4] devlink: propagate extack down to health reporter ops

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Date:   Wed, 9 Oct 2019 20:38:18 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, ayal@...lanox.com,
        moshe@...lanox.com, eranbe@...lanox.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 2/4] devlink: propagate extack down to health
 reporter ops

On Wed,  9 Oct 2019 13:04:43 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> During health reporter operations, driver might want to fill-up
> the extack message, so propagate extack down to the health reporter ops.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>

I wonder how useful this is for non-testing :( We'd probably expect most
health reporters to have auto-recovery on and therefore they won't be
able to depend on that extack..