[PATCH 2/2] nvme-rdma: Add handling for connecting to IPv6 targets

[Sagi Grimberg]

> I think adding a new helper that parses both v4 and v6 addresses +
> scope ID seems like the best thing for now.  I did a grep for in6_pton
> and it looks like at least fs/cifs/netmisc.c and net/sunrpc/addr.c
> could use the helper.
>
> What do you think of adding inet_pton_with_scope() to
> net/core/utils.c?  I'm open to better ideas on the name.  But I can
> code that up and use it in nvme, as well as convert over the two
> places I mentioned above.  The first parameter of the function can be
> an af, and the caller can pass in AF_UNSPEC, AF_INET, or AF_INET6 to
> restrict the parsing to one type of address (or not).

Hey Roland,

Are you looking into this?

I'd love to get it into 4.9...