netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v2] rdma: Add support for the netlink extack

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Message-ID: <f2ad7596-b976-aef7-56b7-edfba3a77ba0@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 10 Jan 2021 10:23:06 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     Patrisious Haddad <phaddad@...dia.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v2] rdma: Add support for the netlink extack

On 1/2/21 11:17 PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Patrisious Haddad <phaddad@...dia.com>
> 
> Add support in rdma for extack errors to be received
> in userspace when sent from kernel, so now netlink extack
> error messages sent from kernel would be printed for the
> user.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Patrisious Haddad <phaddad@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>
> ---
> David,
> 
> Just as a note, rdmatool is heavily influenced by the devlink and
> general code should probably be applicable for both tools. Most likely
> that any core refactoring/fix in the devlink is needed for rdmatool too.
> 

understood and it was not the best model to start with but here we are.

Petr did a good job of refactoring when he added dcb, but rdma was
slightly different so the refactoring did not update it.