From: Petr Machata <pe...@mellanox.com> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 17:05:35 +0000
> Drivers may need to validate configuration of a device that's about to > be upped. An example is mlxsw, which needs to check the configuration of > a VXLAN device attached to an offloaded bridge. Should the validation > fail, there's currently no way to communicate details of the failure to > the user, beyond an error number. > > Therefore this patch set extends the NETDEV_PRE_UP event to include > extack, if available. ... Series applied, thank you.
