netdev - [PATCH 0/4] RFC: raw IPv6 address parsing in NFS client

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Date:	Sun, 18 May 2008 17:19:55 -0400
From:	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] RFC: raw IPv6 address parsing in NFS client

Hi-

I'm interested in some review of the following four patches which add to
the kernel's NFS client the ability to parse IPv6 addresses in presentation
format.

Namely, it adds the following:

1.  If the user passes in an IPv6 address as the server name, the colons
    in the address will confuse the logic that splits the device name
    into a server hostname and an export path.   We'll use square brackets
    around IPv6 server addresses to "escape" the colons, as does Solaris.

2.  If the user passes in a link-local IPv6 address as the server name,
    an interface index is also necessary.  We'll use the "%id" suffix on
    the address to pass in the index, and plant that in the sockaddr's
    sin6_scope_id field.

In addition to the following patches in email, a git repo with these
same patches already applied can be found here:

	linux-nfs.org:exports/cel-2.6.git

The basic questions:

Are these reasonable conventions to follow?  Is the parsing logic adequate?
Is there anything I'm forgetting?

Thanks for any review.

---

Chuck Lever (4):
      NFS: handle interface identifiers in incoming IPv6 addresses
      NFS: Add string length argument to nfs_parse_server_address
      NFS: Support raw IPv6 address hostnames during NFS mount operation
      NFS: Use common device name parsing logic for NFSv4 and NFSv2/v3


 fs/nfs/super.c |  311 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 files changed, 236 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
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