netdev - Re: [Patch net-next 0/7] net: introduce generic type and helpers for IP address

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Message-ID: <1374525857.2061.57.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:44:17 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next 0/7] net: introduce generic type and helpers
 for IP address

On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 15:05 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
> 
> As IPv6 becomes popular, more and more subsystems begin to support IPv6,
> therefore we need a generic IP address type, in case of duplicates.
> Also we will also need some helpers to compare, print, check the generic
> IP address.
> 
> This patchset introduce a new type union inet_addr as a union of IPv4
> and IPv6 address, and some helper functions that will be used by existing
> code and in the future VXLAN module.

I think this patchset is overly complicated.

I see no reason why vsprint's support for
"struct sockaddr *" %pIS should be removed.

%pIS and %pIA can both exist.

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