Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v3 6/8] iplink: Perform most of request buffer setups and checks in iplink_parse()

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 2/22/18 6:02 AM, Serhey Popovych wrote:
> To benefit other users (e.g. link_veth.c) of iplink_parse() from
> additional attribute checks and setups made in iplink_modify(). This
> catches most of weired cobination of parameters to peer device
> configuration.
> 
> Drop @link, @group and @index from iplink_parse() parameters list: they
> are not needed outside.
> 
> While there change return -1 to exit(-1) for group parsing errors: we
> want to stop further command processing unless -force option is given
> to get error line easily.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@gmail.com>
> ---
>  ip/ip_common.h    |    3 +-
>  ip/iplink.c       |  118 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
>  ip/iplink_vxcan.c |   13 +-----
>  ip/link_veth.c    |   13 +-----
>  4 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)
> 

IMO veth and vxcan should not be re-using iplink_parse since they only
want a subset of the parsing.