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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 15:20:01 -0300
From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Aring <aring@mojatatu.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Add support for warnings to extack
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On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 10:11:52AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 3/16/18 1:23 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> > Currently we have the limitation that warnings cannot be reported though
> > extack. For example, when tc flower failed to get offloaded but got
> > installed on software datapath. The hardware failure is not fatal and
> > thus extack is not even shared with the driver, so the error is simply
> > omitted from any logging.
> 
> If this set ends up moving forward, the above statement needs to be
> corrected: extack allows non-error messages to be sent back to the user,
> so the above must be talking about some other limitation local to tc.

Right.

Thanks,
Marcelo