[PATCH rfc 0/4] Introduce a new helper for parsing ipv[4|6]:port to socket address

Sagi Grimberg sagi at grimberg.me
Thu Feb 16 09:53:20 PST 2017


Hey Chuck,

>> As a side-effect, this set adds ipv6 support for nvme over fabrics.
>> I also converted iscsi target and plan to convert nfs/cifs next but
>> wanted to get some feedback before doing that.
>
> At least NFS/RDMA already supports IPv6. You might not need many
> changes there, but I'll hold off on further comments.

Yea, I wanted to get all the rpc_pton/rpc_ntop (which handle both
ipv4 and ipv6 with scopes) converted to use a common helper.



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