netdev - Re: [PATCH rfc 1/4] net/utils: generic inet_pton_with

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Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2017 23:43:54 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        target-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH rfc 1/4] net/utils: generic inet_pton_with_scope helper

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:18:04PM +0200, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> I can maybe do something like:
> 
> if (af == AF_INET || af == AF_UNSPEC) {
> 	ret = inet4_pton();
> 	if (!ret)
> 		return 0;
> 	else if (af != AF_UNSPEC)
> 		return ret;
> }
> 
> if (af == AF_INET6 || af == AF_UNSPEC) {
> 	ret = inet6_pton();
> 	if (!ret)
> 		return 0;
> 	else if (af != AF_UNSPEC)
> 		return ret;
> }
> 
> return -EINVAL;
> 
> better?

My idead was the following:

	switch (af) {
	case AF_INET:
		ret = inet_pton();
		break;
	case AF_INET6:
		ret = inet6_pton();
		break;
	case AF_UNSPEC:
		ret = inet6_pton();
		if (ret)
			ret = inet_pton();
		break;
	}