Re: [RFC] netlink broadcast return value

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On Sunday 01 February 2009, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:

> == genlmsg_multicast (calls nlmsg_multicast) ==
> net/netlink/genetlink.c			: ignores return value
> drivers/acpi/event.c			: printk error
> fs/dquot.c				: printk error (if err != -ESRCH)
> net/wireless/nl80211.c			: ignores return value
>
> In short, I think that the change that I'm proposing would also require
> to fix some netlink_broadcast() clients to skip ENOBUFS errors: they are
> not meaningful for them since they assume that Netlink is unreliable and
> so the return value does not provide any useful information.

You are missing a few callers in net/wimax. Which kernel version did you
do the analysis on?

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Inaky
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