From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] transport: unify ipv4 and ipv6 code paths Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:59:19 -0700 Message-ID: <7v62ax7jzs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20120308124857.GA7666@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jonathan Nieder , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King , Eric Wong To: kusmabite@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 11 20:59:32 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Se9pm-0005HS-5u for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:59:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752029Ab2FKS7W (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:59:22 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:49985 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751381Ab2FKS7V (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:59:21 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E458FD5; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:59:21 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=5XQwEMyoOnYsYplJ018IEpqOkbQ=; b=KejUqw fvDfyVqMx6sGFvtyeuEh9EqzvBuPB2pfGk1lnOCR5jHUOof1+MhVICIr0k1ejAwv zp27HSSZMwffESSNv1AHXqUfXglFBSAUAFfpgC+pZhxTPOMVf1qRcwrHTRmB3HZr cjI+qxicQM4tiGDV9+MQOh2OhsuT8dQs5I4dE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=qq8fiFYUbZyb7MwsfcowRjCemXyo5bBu qMWpWot3UEPMQv3l5Ge1b76LhyBzdkG3h37LpiWiVITXIehum9/NZ+JAum6kgRll SGKYw0JUWRglx3hdVilwe/hjpP1GbGiEK3KK8hmQi7b6o1xg7KXyieFRrRkHIhBv PEOSQLUzz2M= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 555868FD4; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:59:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D71328FD2; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:59:20 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Erik Faye-Lund's message of "Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:12:00 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 8D6E2050-B3F7-11E1-B4FD-FC762E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Erik Faye-Lund writes: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Hi, >> >> These patches eliminate some ifdef-ery concerning NO_IPV6. I used >> them when writing the SRV patch, which applies on top, but it's >> probably best to think of it as an independent topic. >> >> Patch 4 is the heart of the series. It provides an interface similar >> to getaddrinfo that can be implemented on top of either gethostbyname >> or getaddrinfo and puts each implementation in a separate file. This >> way, callers can just use the common API and they do not need to have >> two copies of their code, one for each host resolution API. >> >> Patches 1-3 move code around until all the code that patch 4 touches >> is in one place. >> >> Patches 5 is a potential error handling improvement noticed while >> writing patches 1-4. It's probably not actually needed but it was a >> comfort to me. >> >> These patches have been in use in Debian since June of last year. I'd >> like to see this in mainline early in the 1.7.11 cycle to make coding >> that touches this area during that cycle more pleasant. Thoughts of >> all kinds welcome. > > What happened to this series? Yeah, what happened to it? I was looking at the diff files Ubuntu applies when generating its recent .deb files, and noticed these patches today, and was wondering what was going on.