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From: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net,  netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	 edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com,  andrew+netdev@lunn.ch,
	 horms@kernel.org, ast@fiberby.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] tools: ynl: rework the string representation of NlError
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:51:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21pmnqoyf.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251027192958.2058340-2-kuba@kernel.org>

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes:

> In early days of YNL development dumping the NlMsg on errors
> was quite useful, as the library itself could have been buggy.
> These days increasingly the NlMsg is just taking up screen space
> and means nothing to a typical user. Try to format the errors
> more in line with how YNL C formats its errors strings.
>
> Before:
>   $ ynl --family ethtool  --do channels-set  --json '{}'
>   Netlink error: Invalid argument
>   nl_len = 44 (28) nl_flags = 0x300 nl_type = 2
> 	error: -22
> 	extack: {'miss-type': 'header'}
>
>   $ ynl --family ethtool  --do channels-set  --json '{..., "tx-count": 999}'
>   Netlink error: Invalid argument
>   nl_len = 88 (72) nl_flags = 0x300 nl_type = 2
> 	error: -22
> 	extack: {'msg': 'requested channel count exceeds maximum', 'bad-attr': '.tx-count'}
>
> After:
>   $ ynl --family ethtool  --do channels-set  --json '{}'
>   Netlink error: Invalid argument {'miss-type': 'header'}
>
>   $ ynl --family ethtool  --do channels-set  --json '{..., "tx-count": 999}'
>   Netlink error: requested channel count exceeds maximum: Invalid argument {'bad-attr': '.tx-count'}
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-28 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-27 19:29 [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] tools: ynl: fix indent issues in the main Python lib Jakub Kicinski
2025-10-27 19:29 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] tools: ynl: rework the string representation of NlError Jakub Kicinski
2025-10-28 10:51   ` Donald Hunter [this message]
2025-10-28 13:58   ` Andrew Lunn
2025-10-28 23:34     ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-10-28 10:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] tools: ynl: fix indent issues in the main Python lib Donald Hunter
2025-10-28 23:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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