Subject: Re: second wave of netlink extended ACK reporting
To: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
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On 4/16/17 8:40 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> 
> Johannes or anybody else working on it?
> i.e one which sends the extack to the bowels of callees
> so we can return meaningful messages
> example: rtnetlink::doit() or equivalent seems to be a candidate for
> taking it as a param
> For things that call netlink_ack it may be easier if they create
> the extack.
> For dumps it makes it tricky since their lifetime is much
> longer..


I have a start to a patch for iproute2 as well. It needs some
improvements before I can send it. Should be able to get to it Monday or
Tuesday.