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From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] netlink: send exterr cookie on success
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 11:28:43 -0400
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On Fri,  7 Apr 2017 21:44:02 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> @@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ struct netlink_ext_err {
>  	u32 ext_code;
>  	u32 msg_offset;
>  	u16 attr;
> +	const u8 *cookie;
> +	u8 cookie_len;
>  };

Perhaps the structure should be named just "netlink_ext" or so? It
seems it'll pick up some non-error related usage, such as the cookies
here or, in the future, flags indicating how the message should be
parsed.

Thanks,

 Jiri