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authorAmerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>2012-10-11 21:06:16 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-10-12 13:56:52 -0400
commit28194fcdc150e4d5b418d01db3c29058f60ef32c (patch)
tree9988b666e6551dff9f032f390ffe23a20b4c5227 /net
parent8437e7610c2d3e06f87f71fb82e10ed4b291812a (diff)
downloadlinux-28194fcdc150e4d5b418d01db3c29058f60ef32c.tar.bz2
net: add doc for in6_pton()
It is not easy to use in6_pton() correctly without reading its definition, so add some doc for it. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/net/core/utils.c b/net/core/utils.c
index f5613d569c23..30f3879faecc 100644
--- a/net/core/utils.c
+++ b/net/core/utils.c
@@ -161,6 +161,18 @@ out:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(in4_pton);
+/**
+ * in6_pton - convert an IPv6 address from literal to binary representation
+ * @src: the start of the IPv6 address string
+ * @srclen: the length of the string, -1 means strlen(src)
+ * @dst: the binary (u8[16] array) representation of the IPv6 address
+ * @delim: the delimiter of the IPv6 address in @src, -1 means no delimiter
+ * @end: A pointer to the end of the parsed string will be placed here
+ *
+ * Return one on success, return zero when any error occurs
+ * and @end will point to the end of the parsed string.
+ *
+ */
int in6_pton(const char *src, int srclen,
u8 *dst,
int delim, const char **end)