linux-kernel - Re: [Cluster-devel] [Patch net-next v2 6/8] fs: use generic union inet

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Message-ID: <20130802103107.GA17244@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 2 Aug 2013 03:31:07 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Cluster-devel] [Patch net-next v2 6/8] fs: use generic union
 inet_addr and helper functions

On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 03:14:32PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
> 
> nfs and cifs define some helper functions for sockaddr,
> they can use the generic functions for union inet_addr too.
> 
> Since some dlm code needs to compare ->sin_port, introduce a
> generic function inet_addr_equal_strict() for it.

Would sound more useful to have a sockaddr_equal case that can be used
on any sockaddr.  For cases that no current user handles just return
false.

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