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| author |   David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> | 2018-11-06 12:51:16 -0800 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-11-06 15:00:45 -0800 |
| commit | 68d57f3b1d1a87b4022a0a7463126d7ea172bda1 (patch) | |
| tree | a1961d9305000dc38c7ec2fc315a818b710e4055 /.gitignore | |
| parent | net: Add extack argument to ip_fib_metrics_init (diff) | |
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rtnetlink: Add more extack messages to rtnl_newlink
Add extack arg to the nla_parse_nested calls in rtnl_newlink, and
add messages for unknown device type and link network namespace id.
In particular, it improves the failure message when the wrong link
type is used. From
$ ip li add bond1 type bonding
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
to
$ ip li add bond1 type bonding
Error: Unknown device type.
(The module name is bonding but the link type is bond.)
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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