On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 01:06 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

> +#define NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, msg) do {             \
> +     struct netlink_ext_ack *_extack = (extack);     \
> +     static const char _msg[] = (msg);               \
> +                                                     \
> +     if (_extack)                                    \
> +             _extack->_msg = _msg;                   \
> +     else                                            \
> +             pr_info("%s\n", _msg);                  \
>  } while (0)

That's a good point, I used it only for genetlink so far where it was
guaranteed non-NULL.

I'm not really sure about the printing though - I'd rather not people
start relying on that and then we convert to have non-NULL and the
message disappears as a result ...

johannes

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