From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/3] net: Allow non-fatal messages to be passed in extack Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 11:51:41 +0900 (KST) Message-ID: <20171101.115141.825853765204769299.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1509151034-28278-1-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, jiri@mellanox.com, idosch@mellanox.com, johannes.berg@intel.com To: dsahern@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:44306 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932210AbdKACvp (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:51:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1509151034-28278-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: David Ahern Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:37:11 -0700 > There are many cases where networking subsystems throw non-fatal warning > messages that end up in dmesg / kernel log to which a user making the > change is completely oblivious. This set makes the extack facility > usable for returning such messages. > > The case in point here is spectrum and adding FIB rules which causes an > offload abort. Make the use case more user friendly by letting the user > know that offload is no longer happening because of the rule change. > > v2 > - kept the offload abort in a work queue entry per Ido's comment Series applied, thanks David.