netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/3] rds: IPv6 support

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Message-ID: <2d702fec-925c-7cb6-7e3a-16b341bac01d@oracle.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:42:49 -0700
From:   Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:     Ka-Cheong Poon <ka-cheong.poon@...cle.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com, rds-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/3] rds: IPv6 support

On 7/13/2018 4:02 AM, Ka-Cheong Poon wrote:
> This patch set adds IPv6 support to the kernel RDS and related
> modules.  Existing RDS apps using IPv4 address continue to run without
> any problem.  New RDS apps which want to use IPv6 address can do so by
> passing the address in struct sockaddr_in6 to bind(), connect() or
> sendmsg().  And those apps also need to use the new IPv6 equivalents
> of some of the existing socket options as the existing options use a
> 32 bit integer to store IP address.
> 
[...]

> 
> Ka-Cheong Poon (3):
>    rds: Changing IP address internal representation to struct in6_addr
>    rds: Enable RDS IPv6 support
>    rds: Extend RDS API for IPv6 support
> 
Could you please post v4 and as aligned, please drop the SO_TRANSPORT
change from the set.

regards,
Santosh