[PATCH v3 0/4] Introduce a new helper for parsing ipv[4|6]:port to socket address

Sagi Grimberg sagi at grimberg.me
Sun Mar 19 09:12:31 PDT 2017


>> Changes from v1:
>> - rebased to 4.11-rc1
>> - improved changelogs
>>
>> Changes from v0:
>> - rebased on 4.10
>> - splitted inet_pton_with_scope to be a bit saner (from Chrsitoph)
>> - converted nvme-rdma host_traddr to use a generic helper
>>
>> We have some places in the stack that support ipv4 and ipv6. In
>> some cases the user configuration does not reveal which
>> address family is given and needs to be parsed from the input string.
>>
>> Given that the user-input varies between subsystems, some processing
>> is required from the call-site to separate address and port strings.
>>
>> As a side-effect, this set adds ipv6 support for nvme over fabrics.
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> This set got review tags from two kernel maintainers but this is your
> realm so I wouldn't be comfortable moving forward with this without
> your feedback.

Would it be possible to get a review from one of the netdev folks
on patch 1/4?



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