Typing e.nl_msg.error when processing exception is a bit tedious and counter-intuitive. Set a local .error member to the positive value of the netlink level error. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> --- CC: donald.hunter@xxxxxxxxx CC: jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx --- tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py b/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py index 82d3c98067aa..b30210f537f7 100644 --- a/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py +++ b/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py @@ -100,9 +100,10 @@ from .nlspec import SpecFamily class NlError(Exception): def __init__(self, nl_msg): self.nl_msg = nl_msg + self.error = -nl_msg.error def __str__(self): - return f"Netlink error: {os.strerror(-self.nl_msg.error)}\n{self.nl_msg}" + return f"Netlink error: {os.strerror(self.error)}\n{self.nl_msg}" class ConfigError(Exception): -- 2.44.0