netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 1/3] rds: Changing IP address internal representation to struct in6

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Message-ID: <bff245c0-e431-b6b2-4677-087c3c1c9e59@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 Jul 2018 21:15:31 -0700
From:   "santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com" <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:     Ka-Cheong Poon <ka-cheong.poon@...cle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
        sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 1/3] rds: Changing IP address internal
 representation to struct in6_addr

On 7/23/18 8:51 PM, Ka-Cheong Poon wrote:
> This patch changes the internal representation of an IP address to use
> struct in6_addr.  IPv4 address is stored as an IPv4 mapped address.
> All the functions which take an IP address as argument are also
> changed to use struct in6_addr.  But RDS socket layer is not modified
> such that it still does not accept IPv6 address from an application.
> And RDS layer does not accept nor initiate IPv6 connections.
> 
> v2: Fixed sparse warnings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ka-Cheong Poon<ka-cheong.poon@...cle.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>