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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Enable binding to local IPv4 IP address for CIFS file system.
Date: 01 Aug 2006 20:56:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p734pww2skl.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44CF8FCF.6070401@candelatech.com>

Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> writes:
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
> index 006eb33..1f34c3f 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
> @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ struct TCP_Server_Info {
>   		struct sockaddr_in sockAddr;
>   		struct sockaddr_in6 sockAddr6;
>   	} addr;
> +	u32 ip4_local_ip; /* if != 0, will bind locally to this IP */

adding a ipv4 only, no ipv6 feature like this at this age seems quite
backwards. If anything you should think of easy expansion to IPv6 at least.

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-01 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-01 17:30 PATCH: Enable binding to local IPv4 IP address for CIFS file system Ben Greear
2006-08-01 18:56 ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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