Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 v1 1/1] lib/utils: fix get_addr() and get_prefix() error messages

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 11:02:15 -0700

On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:02:02 +0000
"Varlese, Marco" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> An attempt to add invalid address to interface would print "???" string
> instead of the address family name.
> 
> For example:
> $ ip address add 256.10.166.1/24 dev ens8
> Error: ??? prefix is expected rather than "256.10.166.1/24".
> 
> $ ip neighbor add proxy 2001:db8::g dev ens8
> Error: ??? address is expected rather than "2001:db8::g".
> 
> With this patch the output will look like:
> $ ip address add 256.10.166.1/24 dev ens8
> Error: inet prefix is expected rather than "256.10.166.1/24".
> 
> $ ip neighbor add proxy 2001:db8::g dev ens8
> Error: inet6 address is expected rather than "2001:db8::g".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Przemyslaw Szczerbik <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Varlese <[email-masked]>

Since this was so trivial, I did change manually since patch was corrupted.