netdev - Re: IPv6: presentation format for zero scope ID

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Date:	Tue, 8 Dec 2009 08:03:31 -0500
From:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
To:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
Cc:	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
	Linux Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IPv6: presentation format for zero scope ID

On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:27:16 -0500
Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com> wrote:

> Chuck Lever wrote:
> > I recently added some functions to sunrpc.ko that behave like
> > getnameinfo(AI_NUMERICHOST) does in user space.
> > 
> > One of the functions, rpc_ntop6(), sticks a scope ID on the end of link-
> > and site-local IPv6 addresses.  It does not try to map the scope ID to a
> > device name.
> 
> Site-local addresses have been deprecated...
> 

So this means that addresses with those prefixes should be treated like
any other address, right? If so, then I think the rpc_ntop6 shouldn't be
affixing scopeid's to site local addresses.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
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