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David Ahern committed 68d57f3b1d1
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>