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

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 03:31:07 -0700

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.