From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] rxrpc: Support IPv6
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 01:57:42 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160916.015742.1897517375694948164.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <147380649153.30728.6717292274642860064.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:41:31 +0100
>
> Here is a set of patches that add IPv6 support. They need to be applied on
> top of the just-posted miscellaneous fix patches. They are:
>
> (1) Make autobinding of an unconnected socket work when sendmsg() is
> called to initiate a client call.
>
> (2) Don't specify the protocol when creating the client socket, but rather
> take the default instead.
>
> (3) Use rxrpc_extract_addr_from_skb() in a couple of places that were
> doing the same thing manually. This allows the IPv6 address
> extraction to be done in fewer places.
>
> (4) Add IPv6 support. With this, calls can be made to IPv6 servers from
> userspace AF_RXRPC programs; AFS, however, can't use IPv6 yet as the
> RPC calls need to be upgradeable.
...
> Tagged thusly:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git
> rxrpc-rewrite-20160913-2
Looks good, pulled, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-16 5:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-13 22:41 [PATCH net-next 0/4] rxrpc: Support IPv6 David Howells
2016-09-13 22:41 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] rxrpc: Create an address for sendmsg() to bind unbound socket with David Howells
2016-09-13 22:41 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] rxrpc: Don't specify protocol to when creating transport socket David Howells
2016-09-13 22:41 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] rxrpc: Use rxrpc_extract_addr_from_skb() rather than doing this manually David Howells
2016-09-13 22:41 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] rxrpc: Add IPv6 support David Howells
2016-09-14 7:36 ` [PATCH net-next 0/4] rxrpc: Support IPv6 David Howells
2016-09-16 5:57 ` David Miller [this message]
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