On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > These patches eliminate some ifdef-ery concerning NO_IPV6. I used > them when writing the SRV patch, which applies on top, but it's > probably best to think of it as an independent topic. > > Patch 4 is the heart of the series. It provides an interface similar > to getaddrinfo that can be implemented on top of either gethostbyname > or getaddrinfo and puts each implementation in a separate file. This > way, callers can just use the common API and they do not need to have > two copies of their code, one for each host resolution API. > > Patches 1-3 move code around until all the code that patch 4 touches > is in one place. > > Patches 5 is a potential error handling improvement noticed while > writing patches 1-4. It's probably not actually needed but it was a > comfort to me. > > These patches have been in use in Debian since June of last year. I'd > like to see this in mainline early in the 1.7.11 cycle to make coding > that touches this area during that cycle more pleasant. Thoughts of > all kinds welcome. What happened to this series? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html