netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4: add comment about connect() to INADDR

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Date:   Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:29:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     koct9i@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4: add comment about connect() to INADDR_ANY

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 20:22:50 +0300

> Copy comment from net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c to help future readers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>

This function is used by many lookups, not just connect() so the
comment is entirely inapropriate here.

I'm not applying this, sorry.