Re: [PATCH 0/5] transport: unify ipv4 and ipv6 code paths

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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?

Yeah, what happened to it?  I was looking at the diff files Ubuntu
applies when generating its recent .deb files, and noticed these
patches today, and was wondering what was going on.
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