netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/3] netlink: add support for formatted extack messages

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Date:   Fri, 7 Oct 2022 14:58:42 +0100
From:   Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@...il.com>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, ecree@...inx.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@....com
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, habetsm.xilinx@...il.com,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/3] netlink: add support for formatted
 extack messages

On 07/10/2022 14:49, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Unless maybe we printed a warning together with the full string, so the
> user could recover it?
Ooh, I like that.
Would need to net_ratelimit of course, but that should be easy enough.

It's not quite perfect as it'd evaluate the VA_ARGS twice, potentially
 side-effecting, which the original NL_SET_ERR_MSG() took some care to
 avoid, but I think we can live with that.

-ed