On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:14:11 +0100 > David Howells <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Wang Lei <[email protected]> >> > > ----------------[snip]------------------ > >> +/** >> + * dns_resolve_unc_to_ip - Resolve UNC server name to ip address. >> + * @unc: UNC path specifying the server >> + * @ip_addr: Where to return the IP address. >> + * >> + * The IP address will be returned in string form, and the caller is >> + * responsible for freeing it. >> + * >> + * Returns 0 on success, -ve on error. >> + */ >> +int >> +dns_resolve_unc_to_ip(const char *unc, char **ip_addr)
> Another (somewhat minor) nit that Steve F pointed out. The function > that this replaces in cifs can deal with numeric scopeid's as part of > the address. For instance: > > fea1::1%2 > > ...where the scopeid here is "2". For linux machines, the scopeid > essentially equates to an interface index and really has no meaning > outside of the machine. > > It's not clear to me that we'd ever see one of those in a hostname that > we want to parse here, but it might not hurt to plan for it and deal > with it appropriately. I think it is plausible that the scopeid/interface matters here (I heard the request before and it seems reasonable). For IPv6 in UNC names Windows maps : to -- IIRC so scope ids look a little different, but I think they support them -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
