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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, dsa@cumulusnetworks.com,
	daniel@iogearbox.net, alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com,
	bblanco@gmail.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, kubakici@wp.pl,
	oss-drivers@netronome.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] netlink: make extended ACK setting NULL-friendly
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:13:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1493108014.2592.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170425080644.122536-2-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> (sfid-20170425_100815_174836_54D64311)

On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 01:06 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

> +#define NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, msg) do {		\
> +	struct netlink_ext_ack *_extack = (extack);	\
> +	static const char _msg[] = (msg);		\
> +							\
> +	if (_extack)					\
> +		_extack->_msg = _msg;			\
> +	else						\
> +		pr_info("%s\n", _msg);			\
>  } while (0)

That's a good point, I used it only for genetlink so far where it was
guaranteed non-NULL.

I'm not really sure about the printing though - I'd rather not people
start relying on that and then we convert to have non-NULL and the
message disappears as a result ...

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-25  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-25  8:06 [RFC 0/4] xdp: use netlink extended ACK reporting Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-25  8:06 ` [RFC 1/4] netlink: make extended ACK setting NULL-friendly Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-25  8:13   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2017-04-25 20:53     ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-26  7:17       ` Johannes Berg
2017-04-25  9:12   ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-04-25  8:06 ` [RFC 2/4] xdp: propagate extended ack to XDP setup Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-25  8:06 ` [RFC 3/4] nfp: make use of extended ack message reporting Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-25 12:42   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-04-25 14:20     ` David Miller
2017-04-26 11:13       ` [oss-drivers] " Simon Horman
2017-04-26 13:03         ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-04-26 13:31           ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-04-26 14:44         ` David Miller
2017-04-26 18:44           ` Simon Horman
2017-04-25  8:06 ` [RFC 4/4] virtio_net: " Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-25  9:05 ` [RFC 0/4] xdp: use netlink extended ACK reporting Daniel Borkmann
2017-04-25 16:54   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-04-25 21:00   ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-25 14:53 ` David Ahern
2017-04-25 21:05   ` Jakub Kicinski

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