From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:59:19 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] transport: unify ipv4 and ipv6 code paths Message-ID: <7v62ax7jzs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: 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.