[ovs-dev] [PATCH v4] netlink-socket: Exit NL transaction loop when EINVAL is returned

[Nithin Raju]

> On Apr 16, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Eitan Eliahu <eliahue at vmware.com> wrote:
> 
> Nithin, the only issue I have with that is that currently the driver returns an I/O error in some cases where the I/O succeeds but the transaction fails (e.g. when OVS sends down a port delete NL message and there is no such a port). In this case, the current user mode will dump all the other transactions in the same batch.

I agree the solution is not complete without the kernel fix. Let’s get that patch also, and discuss end-to-end.

> Thanks you for working on the driver side. I thought I will start to work on it but please go ahead.

Thanks Eitan.

-- Nithin