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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Add support for warnings to extack
To: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>,
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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.