From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, hadi@cyberus.ca
Subject: Re: [RFC] Extend netlink error codes
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:07:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040910160736.309bc29c.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040910225158.GO20088@postel.suug.ch>
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:51:58 +0200
Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> wrote:
> Once in netlink_ack, split the combined error message again,
> fill the existing errno into nlerrmsg.error and provide the
> netlink specific error code in a newly introduced TLV. This
> way, no binaries or old applications would break, but
> applications can support it and provide more meanigful error
> message with almost no effort.
It sounds like it could work.
Jamal, any objections to his idea?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-10 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-10 22:51 [RFC] Extend netlink error codes Thomas Graf
2004-09-10 23:07 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-09-11 1:38 ` jamal
2004-09-11 15:49 ` Thomas Graf
2004-09-11 15:58 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-11 16:24 ` Thomas Graf
2004-09-11 16:50 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-11 17:57 ` Thomas Graf
2004-09-11 18:48 ` Sam Leffler
2004-09-11 21:10 ` jamal
2004-09-13 20:36 ` Thomas Graf
2004-09-13 23:28 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-14 2:00 ` jamal
2004-09-12 23:37 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-13 6:26 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-13 19:33 ` David S. Miller
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