netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 1/4] rtnetlink: return ENODEV when ifname does not exist and group is given

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Message-ID: <20220415122432.5db0de59@hermes.local>
Date:   Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:24:32 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@...irst.fr>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, cong.wang@...edance.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, Brian Baboch <brian.baboch@...irst.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 1/4] rtnetlink: return ENODEV when ifname
 does not exist and group is given

On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 18:53:27 +0200
Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@...irst.fr> wrote:

>  	if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_CREATE)) {
> -		if (ifm->ifi_index == 0 && tb[IFLA_GROUP])
> +		/* No dev found and NLM_F_CREATE not set. Requested dev does not exist,
> +		 * or it's for a group
> +		*/
> +		if (link_specified)
> +			return -ENODEV;

Please add extack error message as well?
Simple errno's are harder to debug.