From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome•com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, davem@davemloft•net, ayal@mellanox•com,
moshe@mellanox•com, eranbe@mellanox•com, mlxsw@mellanox•com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 2/4] devlink: propagate extack down to health reporter ops
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 09:09:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191010090934.4e869113@cakuba.netronome.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191010080704.GB2223@nanopsycho>
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:07:04 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 05:38:18AM CEST, jakub.kicinski@netronome•com wrote:
> >On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 13:04:43 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox•com>
> >>
> >> During health reporter operations, driver might want to fill-up
> >> the extack message, so propagate extack down to the health reporter ops.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox•com>
> >
> >I wonder how useful this is for non-testing :( We'd probably expect most
> >health reporters to have auto-recovery on and therefore they won't be
> >able to depend on that extack..
>
> That is probably true. But still, what is harm of carrying potential
> error message to the user?
Not sure, it just makes the right thing to do non-obvious to someone
implementing the API (below level 7 on Rusty's API Design Manifesto).
But I don't feel too strongly about it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-10 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-09 11:04 [patch net-next 0/4] netdevsim: add devlink health reporters support Jiri Pirko
2019-10-09 11:04 ` [patch net-next 1/4] devlink: don't do reporter recovery if the state is healthy Jiri Pirko
2019-10-09 11:04 ` [patch net-next 2/4] devlink: propagate extack down to health reporter ops Jiri Pirko
2019-10-10 3:38 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-10-10 8:07 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-10-10 16:09 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2019-10-09 11:04 ` [patch net-next 3/4] netdevsim: implement couple of testing devlink health reporters Jiri Pirko
2019-10-10 3:53 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-10-10 8:09 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-10-09 11:04 ` [patch net-next 4/4] selftests: add netdevsim devlink health tests Jiri Pirko
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