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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: Change %pI6 format to output compacted addresses?
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:21:02 -0700
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On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 14:15 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > The patch allows "%p6ic" for compressed and "%p6ic4" for compressed
> > with ipv4 last u32.
> 
> Why do these need to be separate?

Just an option.
I think it possible somebody will want "1::" instead of "1::0.0.0.0"