From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
pablo@netfilter.org, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>,
David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 1/5] netlink: extended ACK reporting
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:13:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170411081346.GD1976@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1491895758.31620.4.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:29:18AM CEST, johannes@sipsolutions.net wrote:
>On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 09:19 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>
>> > + NUM_NLMSGERR_ATTRS,
>>
>> According to the rest of the uapi, this should be rather named:
>> __NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX
>
>nl80211 uses NUM_ so I guess that's a matter of convention, but I can
>change that I guess.
Please do.
>
>> > if (err || (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_ACK))
>> > - netlink_ack(skb, nlh, err);
>> > + netlink_ack(skb, nlh, err, NULL);
>>
>> Wouldn't it make sense to leave netlink_ack as is and add
>> netlink_ack_ext for those who need to pass non-null?
>
>I thought about it, but didn't really see much point. The churn isn't
>super big (a dozen callers or so), and I thought it makes sense to
>point out to the users that there's something here.
Makes sense.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-11 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-11 6:56 [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] netlink extended ACK reporting Johannes Berg
2017-04-11 6:56 ` [PATCH net-next v4 1/5] netlink: " Johannes Berg
2017-04-11 7:08 ` Jiri Pirko
[not found] ` <20170411065700.2623-2-johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-11 7:19 ` Jiri Pirko
2017-04-11 7:29 ` Johannes Berg
2017-04-11 8:13 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2017-04-11 8:29 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1491899392.31620.14.camel-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-11 8:57 ` Jiri Pirko
2017-04-11 6:56 ` [PATCH net-next v4 2/5] genetlink: pass extended ACK report down Johannes Berg
2017-04-11 6:56 ` [PATCH net-next v4 3/5] netlink: allow sending extended ACK with cookie on success Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <20170411065700.2623-1-johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-11 6:56 ` [PATCH net-next v4 4/5] netlink: pass extended ACK struct to parsing functions Johannes Berg
2017-04-11 6:57 ` [PATCH net-next v4 5/5] netlink: pass extended ACK struct where available Johannes Berg
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