From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@wifirst.fr>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, cong.wang@bytedance.com,
edumazet@google.com, Brian Baboch <brian.baboch@wifirst.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 1/4] rtnetlink: return ENODEV when ifname does not exist and group is given
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 08:04:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220419080415.718913e0@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d63921e9-2306-a153-48fe-a1f65157aafa@wifirst.fr>
On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 09:29:37 +0200
Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@wifirst.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> >> + if (link_specified)
> >> + return -ENODEV;
> >
> > Please add extack error message as well?
> > Simple errno's are harder to debug.
>
>
> What kind of message have you in mind for that one? Something like
> "Interface not found" does not have extra information for ENODEV code.
>
> At this place, one gave interface index or interface name, and nothing
> matched.
Not sure how code gets here. Maybe "interface name required"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-19 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-15 16:53 [PATCH v5 net-next 0/4] rtnetlink: improve ALT_IFNAME config and fix dangerous GROUP usage Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 16:53 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 1/4] rtnetlink: return ENODEV when ifname does not exist and group is given Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 19:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-04-19 7:29 ` Florent Fourcot
2022-04-19 15:04 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2022-04-15 16:53 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 2/4] rtnetlink: enable alt_ifname for setlink/newlink Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 16:53 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 3/4] rtnetlink: return ENODEV when IFLA_ALT_IFNAME is used in dellink Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 16:53 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 4/4] rtnetlink: return EINVAL when request cannot succeed Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 19:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-04-19 7:29 ` Florent Fourcot
2022-04-22 1:27 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes
2022-04-15 19:03 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 0/4] rtnetlink: improve ALT_IFNAME config and fix dangerous GROUP usage Jakub Kicinski
2022-04-19 11:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2022-04-19 11:50 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-19 12:51 ` [PATCH net-next] Revert "rtnetlink: return EINVAL when request cannot succeed" Florent Fourcot
2022-04-20 14:48 ` Guillaume Nault
2022-04-21 1:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2022-04-22 10:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2022-04-19 14:25 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 0/4] rtnetlink: improve ALT_IFNAME config and fix dangerous GROUP usage Florent Fourcot
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