[ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v3 1/6] vxlan: refactor verification and application of configuration

[Matthias Schiffer]

On 06/23/2017 10:52 AM, Jiri Benc wrote:
> This patchset looks good overall (would send my Acked-by for most of
> this but I'm late).
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:03:55 +0200, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
>> Log messages in these
>> functions are removed, as it is generally unexpected to find error output
>> for netlink requests in the kernel log. Userspace should be able to handle
>> errors based on the error codes returned via netlink just fine.
> 
> However, this is not really true. It's impossible to find out what went
> wrong when you use e.g. iproute2 to configure a vxlan link.
> 
> We really need to convert the kernel log messages to the extended
> netlink errors. Since you removed them prematurely, could you please
> work on that?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  Jiri
> 

I was told the extended netlink error facilities were not ready yet, has
that changed since the last release?

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other setting I can do with
iproute2 that will write its errors in the kernel log; but there are quite
a lot settings that will just return a very unspecific error code. Isn't it
more common for the userspace tool to handle diagnostics in such cases?

Anyways, I will gladly work on improving the error handling if someone can
give me a pointer how these extended netlink errors are used.

Matthias