From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck.lever@oracle.com (Chuck Lever) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:59:24 -0500 Subject: [PATCH rfc 0/4] Introduce a new helper for parsing ipv[4|6]:port to socket address In-Reply-To: <8dc41cfc-85b2-fb42-61b0-5be499fa7ad0@grimberg.me> References: <1487267017-29904-1-git-send-email-sagi@grimberg.me> <8dc41cfc-85b2-fb42-61b0-5be499fa7ad0@grimberg.me> Message-ID: > On Feb 16, 2017,@12:53 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote: > > Hey Chuck, > >>> As a side-effect, this set adds ipv6 support for nvme over fabrics. >>> I also converted iscsi target and plan to convert nfs/cifs next but >>> wanted to get some feedback before doing that. >> >> At least NFS/RDMA already supports IPv6. You might not need many >> changes there, but I'll hold off on further comments. > > Yea, I wanted to get all the rpc_pton/rpc_ntop (which handle both > ipv4 and ipv6 with scopes) converted to use a common helper. RPC is dealing with universal addresses, which are not quite the same as IP presentation addresses. The port number is expressed as: hi8.lo8 And universal IPv6 addresses don't have a mechanism for conveying scope information. -- Chuck Lever