From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: Print reasons for errors in setting bitrates.
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 08:53:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56002809.8010307@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1442838469.1876.1.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On 09/21/2015 05:27 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 14:02 -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
>> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>>
>> Makes it easier to figure out why user-space calls are
>> failing.
>
> I'm aware of this problem, but I'm not going to gratuitously start
> printing to dmesg for this.
>
> There's a scheme being discussed for extended error numbers/messages,
> particularly for perf but it might be implemented for any syscall. We
> might be able to extend that to netlink in a different way, including
> the description in the (extended) netlink ack message.
I understand...I figured the patch might not be wanted. A more general
solution would be welcome.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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2015-09-18 21:02 [PATCH] nl80211: Print reasons for errors in setting bitrates greearb
2015-09-21 12:27 ` Johannes Berg
2015-09-21 15:53 ` Ben Greear [this message]
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