On 06/23/2017 12:23 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 12:13 +0200, Matthias Schiffer wrote: >> >> I was told the extended netlink error facilities were not ready yet, >> has that changed since the last release? > > Yes, the facility is in the kernel tree now. > >> Anyways, I will gladly work on improving the error handling if >> someone can give me a pointer how these extended netlink errors are >> used. > > Just grep for 'netlink_ext_ack' :) > > johannes >
Thanks for the hint. It seems though that rtnl_link_ops.newlink/changelink don't allow passing the extack yet... how do we proceed here? Treewide change (maybe by someone who knows their Coccinelle-fu?), or would the introduction of new versions of the newlink and changelink fields be more acceptable, so drivers can be moved to the new API one by one? Matthias
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