From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 iproute2] lib: Dump ext-ack string by default Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 09:15:09 -0700 Message-ID: <20170809091509.0b14953c@xeon-e3> References: <1502293407-4152-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Ahern Return-path: Received: from mail-pg0-f52.google.com ([74.125.83.52]:33132 "EHLO mail-pg0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752544AbdHIQPS (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2017 12:15:18 -0400 Received: by mail-pg0-f52.google.com with SMTP id u5so29957776pgn.0 for ; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 09:15:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1502293407-4152-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 08:43:27 -0700 David Ahern wrote: > In time, errfn can be implemented for link, route, etc commands to > give a much more detailed response (e.g., point to the attribute > that failed). Doing so is much more complicated to process the > message and convert attribute ids to names. > > In any case the error string returned by the kernel should be dumped > to the user, so make that happen now. > > Signed-off-by: David Ahern Applied