netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: don't propagate EOPNOTSUPP from dumps

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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 16:50:27 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
 pabeni@...hat.com, f.fainelli@...il.com, mkubecek@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: don't propagate EOPNOTSUPP from dumps

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 14:58:06 -0800 you wrote:
> The default dump handler needs to clear ret before returning.
> Otherwise if the last interface returns an inconsequential
> error this error will propagate to user space.
> 
> This may confuse user space (ethtool CLI seems to ignore it,
> but YNL doesn't). It will also terminate the dump early
> for mutli-skb dump, because netlink core treats EOPNOTSUPP
> as a real error.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] ethtool: don't propagate EOPNOTSUPP from dumps
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/cbeb989e41f4

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