On 12/5/18 3:52 AM, Petr Machata wrote: > Drivers may need to validate configuration of a device that's about to > be upped. Should the validation fail, there's currently no way to > communicate details of the failure to the user, beyond an error number. > > To mend that, change __dev_open() to take an extack argument and pass it > from __dev_change_flags() and dev_open(), where it was propagated in the > previous patches. > > Change __dev_open() to call call_netdevice_notifiers_extack() so that > the passed-in extack is attached to the NETDEV_PRE_UP notifier. > > Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > net/core/dev.c | 8 ++++---- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
