[PATCH net-next mlxsw 0/4] mlxsw: Add extack messages for tc flower

Nir Dotan nird at mellanox.com
Wed Jul 18 23:01:27 AEST 2018


This patch set adds extack messages support to tc flower part of mlxsw.
The messages provide clear reasoning to failures, as some of the available
actions and keys are not supported in driver or HW and resources may get 
exhausted.

The first patch deals with propagation of the extack pointer among the functions
dealing with key parsing and action sets handling.

Following patches 2-4 add appropriate messages across the different layers of 
tc flower implementation.

Nir Dotan (4):
  mlxsw: spectrum_acl: Propagate extack pointer
  mlxsw: core_acl_flex_actions: Add extack messages
  mlxsw: spectrum_acl: Add extack messages
  mlxsw: spectrum_flower: Add extack messages

 .../mellanox/mlxsw/core_acl_flex_actions.c         | 50 +++++++++++++++-------
 .../mellanox/mlxsw/core_acl_flex_actions.h         | 15 ++++---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.h     | 17 +++++---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl.c | 44 ++++++++++++-------
 .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_flower.c  | 41 ++++++++++++------
 5 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)

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2.8.4



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