Your CC list is so huge that vger.kernel.org dropped all of your postings.
That CC list is not reasonable at all, trim it down to the most minimum
set. Probably 2 or 3 mailing lists, primarily netdev, and maybe a small
handful of specific developers.
Nothing more.
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Drivers may need to validate configuration of a device that's about to
be upped. An example is mlxsw, which needs to check the configuration of
a VXLAN device attached to an offloaded bridge. Should the validation
fail, there's currently no way to communicate details of the failure to
the user, bey
