Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:04:58 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH net 0/3] ethtool: fail with error if request has unknown flags | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:17:38 +0100 (CET)
> Jakub Kicinski pointed out that if unrecognized flags are set in netlink > header request, kernel shoud fail with an error rather than silently > ignore them so that we have more freedom in future flags semantics. > > To help userspace with handling such errors, inform the client which > flags are supported by kernel. For that purpose, we need to allow > passing cookies as part of extack also in case of error (they can be > only passed on success now).
Series applied, thanks Michal.
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