netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: add extack arg for link ops

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Message-ID: <f6f10fe7-afdd-fdce-c091-861a738feb8a@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 3 Aug 2021 08:32:48 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Rocco Yue <rocco.yue@...iatek.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, rocco.yue@...il.com,
        chao.song@...iatek.com, zhuoliang.zhang@...iatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: add extack arg for link ops

On 8/3/21 6:02 AM, Rocco Yue wrote:
> Pass extack arg to validate_linkmsg and validate_link_af callbacks.
> If a netlink attribute has a reject_message, use the extended ack
> mechanism to carry the message back to user space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rocco Yue <rocco.yue@...iatek.com>
> ---
>  include/net/rtnetlink.h | 3 ++-
>  net/core/rtnetlink.c    | 9 +++++----
>  net/ipv4/devinet.c      | 5 +++--
>  net/ipv6/addrconf.c     | 5 +++--
>  4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>