... >>> + rd_prepare_msg(rd, RDMA_NLDEV_CMD_NEWLINK, &seq, >>> + (NLM_F_REQUEST | NLM_F_ACK)); >>> + mnl_attr_put_strz(rd->nlh, RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DEV_NAME, name); >>> + mnl_attr_put_strz(rd->nlh, RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_LINK_TYPE, type); >>> + mnl_attr_put_strz(rd->nlh, RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_NDEV_NAME, dev); >>> + ret = rd_send_msg(rd); >>> + if (ret) >>> + return ret; >>> + >>> + ret = rd_recv_msg(rd, link_add_parse_cb, rd, seq); >>> + if (ret) >>> + perror(NULL); >> Why do you need rd_recv_msg()? I think that it is not needed, at least >> for rename, I didn't need it. >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2-next.git/tree/rdma/dev.c#n244 > To get the response of if it was successfully added. It provides the > errno value. If I don't do the rd_recv_msg, then adding the same name twice fails without any error notification. Ditto for deleting a non-existent link. So the rd_recv_msg() allows getting the failure reason (and detecting the failure).
