[Bridge] [PATCH v5 net-next 03/10] net: bridge: don't print in br_switchdev_set_port_flag

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 18:07:14 UTC 2021



On 2/12/2021 7:15 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean at nxp.com>
> 
> For the netlink interface, propagate errors through extack rather than
> simply printing them to the console. For the sysfs interface, we still
> print to the console, but at least that's one layer higher than in
> switchdev, which also allows us to silently ignore the offloading of
> flags if that is ever needed in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean at nxp.com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>

I suppose the slight "loss" of information on which port failed the
operation is okay since it was implied by either the path (sysfs) or the
bridge command.
-- 
Florian


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