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