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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 03/20] net: Add extack to nlmsg_parse
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 12:42:17 -0600
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On 10/5/18 11:39 AM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 02:33:38PM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
>> From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
>>
>> Make sure extack is passed to nlmsg_parse where easy to do so.
>> Most of these are dump handlers and leveraging the extack in
>> the netlink_callback.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> 
> Yeah, having extack in dump requests sounds really useful to me!
> 

it's been invaluable updating iproute2.