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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 12:51:16 -0700 From: Joe Damato To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] docs: networking: add guidance on what to push via extack Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: Joe Damato , Jakub Kicinski , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org References: <20260609190919.1139517-1-kuba@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260609190919.1139517-1-kuba@kernel.org> On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 12:09:19PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > Every now and then someone tries to duplicated extack > messages to dmesg. Document our guidance against this. > Also indicate that system level faults should continue > to go to system logs. The high level thinking is to try > to distinguish between what's important to the user vs > system admin. > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski > --- > CC: corbet@lwn.net > CC: skhan@linuxfoundation.org > CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org > --- > Documentation/networking/driver.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/networking/driver.rst b/Documentation/networking/driver.rst > index 195a916dc0de..abd366dd5e43 100644 > --- a/Documentation/networking/driver.rst > +++ b/Documentation/networking/driver.rst > @@ -128,3 +128,16 @@ to be freed up. > If you return NETDEV_TX_BUSY from the ndo_start_xmit method, you > must not keep any reference to that SKB and you must not attempt > to free it up. > + > +Error message reporting > +======================= > + > +Number of driver configuration interfaces pass a Netlink extended ACK Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but seems like it should be: "A number of" ? Reviewed-by: Joe Damato