netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] netlink: provide an ability to set default extack message

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Message-ID: <20230126232615.1901128c@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 26 Jan 2023 23:26:15 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netlink: provide an ability to set default
 extack message

On Fri, 27 Jan 2023 07:26:13 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > That'd be my preference too, FWIW. It's only the offload cases which
> > need this sort of fallback.  
> 
> Of course not, almost any error unwind path which sets extack will need it.

I guess we can come up with scenarios where the new behavior would 
be useful. But the fact is - your patch changes 4 places...

> See devlink as an example

I don't know what part of devlink you mean at a quick scroll.