Subject: Re: [Cluster-devel] [Patch net-next v2 6/8] fs: use generic union inet_addr and helper functions

From: Cong Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 11:16:54 +0800

On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 03:31 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 03:14:32PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> > From: Cong Wang <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > nfs and cifs define some helper functions for sockaddr,
> > they can use the generic functions for union inet_addr too.
> > 
> > Since some dlm code needs to compare ->sin_port, introduce a
> > generic function inet_addr_equal_strict() for it.
> 
> Would sound more useful to have a sockaddr_equal case that can be used
> on any sockaddr.  For cases that no current user handles just return
> false.
> 

Ok, since you and other people ask for it.

Thanks.