netdev - Re: [RFC] ipv6: Change %pI6 format to output compacted addresses?

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Message-Id: <20090813.163133.199571497.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:31:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	chuck.lever@...cle.com, brian.haley@...com, jens@...one.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: Change %pI6 format to output compacted addresses?

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:13:42 -0700

> On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 17:02 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> [ I would think user space in general should be using inet_pton(3)  
>> everywhere for such interfaces, so the format of these addresses  
>> wouldn't matter so much.  Probably impossible at this point. ]
> 
> David Miller is authoritative here.

In the final analysis, the risk is just too high to break
userspace.  So let's play conservative here and not change
the output for currently user visible stuff.
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