Re: [PATCH net-next] docs: networking: add guidance on what to push via extack

[Joe Damato <joe@dama.to>]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 12:09:19PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Every now and then someone tries to duplicated extack
> messages to dmesg. Document our guidance against this.
> Also indicate that system level faults should continue
> to go to system logs. The high level thinking is to try
> to distinguish between what's important to the user vs
> system admin.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> ---
> CC: corbet@lwn.net
> CC: skhan@linuxfoundation.org
> CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  Documentation/networking/driver.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/driver.rst b/Documentation/networking/driver.rst
> index 195a916dc0de..abd366dd5e43 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/driver.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/driver.rst
> @@ -128,3 +128,16 @@ to be freed up.
>  If you return NETDEV_TX_BUSY from the ndo_start_xmit method, you
>  must not keep any reference to that SKB and you must not attempt
>  to free it up.
> +
> +Error message reporting
> +=======================
> +
> +Number of driver configuration interfaces pass a Netlink extended ACK

Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but seems like it should be: "A number of" ?

Reviewed-by: Joe Damato <joe@dama.to>