From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cong Wang Subject: [PATCH 1/2] net: add doc for in6_pton() Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:06:16 +0800 Message-ID: <1350025577-792-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Cong Wang , "David S. Miller" To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:28061 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753395Ab2JLHG3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:06:29 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: It is not easy to use in6_pton() correctly without reading its definition, so add some doc for it. Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Cong Wang --- net/core/utils.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/utils.c b/net/core/utils.c index f5613d5..30f3879 100644 --- a/net/core/utils.c +++ b/net/core/utils.c @@ -161,6 +161,18 @@ out: } EXPORT_SYMBOL(in4_pton); +/** + * in6_pton - convert an IPv6 address from literal to binary representation + * @src: the start of the IPv6 address string + * @srclen: the length of the string, -1 means strlen(src) + * @dst: the binary (u8[16] array) representation of the IPv6 address + * @delim: the delimiter of the IPv6 address in @src, -1 means no delimiter + * @end: A pointer to the end of the parsed string will be placed here + * + * Return one on success, return zero when any error occurs + * and @end will point to the end of the parsed string. + * + */ int in6_pton(const char *src, int srclen, u8 *dst, int delim, const char **end) -- 1.7.7.6