From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Faye-Lund Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] transport: unify ipv4 and ipv6 code paths Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:12:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20120308124857.GA7666@burratino> Reply-To: kusmabite@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Eric Wong To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 11 20:12:52 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Se96h-000543-Uu for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:12:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752372Ab2FKSMs convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:12:48 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:56012 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752062Ab2FKSMr convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:12:47 -0400 Received: by dady13 with SMTP id y13so5728708dad.19 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:12:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JbP0RP8Avdq7Kd0niRBx3OpXmXxGgegDfhMkcP1togE=; b=hWxCbZZ+JTBdD4l4A3cIDN2UWM+rB870LYcx6MA6q8/+rudij/WVE3784QPlr8MsiF dmYlqPBKvTGl/nDyPI6pTto0mri6SlvvlGvowzCfyWrI6TesaiOvt89A9J7zP8yUn5gg hIC/JuGUinNrWLD2pST3AFOIChCBjk+i98nJqztQXkPz4P8P1kqA07bq79l75nNldAq+ OAyA9FIaIT2MR6kkeOsJ7O3mpwI1byRr8jJPa3idSjuTyITMKwJw1w9fJY+r84VlmK63 wXio0qt+ZShmuMGQ1Lyb2NNVr5N8WZhJ8pT1JiQu3GsX1E2yHCho9EMK3Wo3rgcJSIIP sGgw== Received: by 10.68.203.7 with SMTP id km7mr29422949pbc.7.1339438367115; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:12:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.40.98 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:12:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120308124857.GA7666@burratino> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Jonathan Nieder wr= ote: > Hi, > > These patches eliminate some ifdef-ery concerning NO_IPV6. =A0I used > them when writing the SRV patch, which applies on top, but it's > probably best to think of it as an independent topic. > > Patch 4 is the heart of the series. =A0It provides an interface simil= ar > to getaddrinfo that can be implemented on top of either gethostbyname > or getaddrinfo and puts each implementation in a separate file. =A0Th= is > way, callers can just use the common API and they do not need to have > two copies of their code, one for each host resolution API. > > Patches 1-3 move code around until all the code that patch 4 touches > is in one place. > > Patches 5 is a potential error handling improvement noticed while > writing patches 1-4. =A0It's probably not actually needed but it was = a > comfort to me. > > These patches have been in use in Debian since June of last year. =A0= I'd > like to see this in mainline early in the 1.7.11 cycle to make coding > that touches this area during that cycle more pleasant. =A0Thoughts o= f > all kinds welcome. What happened to this series?