netdev - Re: IPv6 address printf format specifier

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Message-Id: <20090318.223013.142429036.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:30:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vladislav.yasevich@...com
Cc:	chuck.lever@...cle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPv6 address printf format specifier

From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:26:30 -0400

> There are multiple different forms of presenting addresses, all of
> which are valid and non of which will provide for sting equality.
> Regardless of how we represent our IPv6 addresses, there is a chance
> that it will cause interoperability issues and the only way to truly
> solve it is to change applications to compare addresses in their
> true numerical representation.

Or to, they themselves, canonicalize the text representation before
comparison.
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