Subject: Re: [Patch net-next 0/7] net: introduce generic type and helpers for IP address

From: Cong Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:00:23 +0800

On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 13:44 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> I see no reason why vsprint's support for
> "struct sockaddr *" %pIS should be removed.
> 
> %pIS and %pIA can both exist.
> 
> 

Because there is no need to keep both of them, struct sockaddr can be
safely converted to union inet_addr.