I think adding a new helper that parses both v4 and v6 addresses + scope ID seems like the best thing for now. I did a grep for in6_pton and it looks like at least fs/cifs/netmisc.c and net/sunrpc/addr.c could use the helper. What do you think of adding inet_pton_with_scope() to net/core/utils.c? I'm open to better ideas on the name. But I can code that up and use it in nvme, as well as convert over the two places I mentioned above. The first parameter of the function can be an af, and the caller can pass in AF_UNSPEC, AF_INET, or AF_INET6 to restrict the parsing to one type of address (or not).
Hey Roland, Are you looking into this? I'd love to get it into 4.9... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
