[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Jan 21 13:39:02 CET 2013


Dear Chris,

In message <50FBB7EA.10601 at gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> The POSIX solution for this is to use sockaddr which encompasses both v4
> and v6 addresses (as well as other socket types). Do we want to add a
> wrapper type or just work with void *?

Without checking for implications for the implementation I would say
that we should avoid void * and rather allow for better type checking.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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