Hi,

2018-07-13 20:02 GMT+09:00 Ka-Cheong Poon <ka-cheong.p...@oracle.com>:
> There are many data structures (RDS socket options) used by RDS apps
> which use a 32 bit integer to store IP address. To support IPv6,
> struct in6_addr needs to be used. To ensure backward compatibility, a
> new data structure is introduced for each of those data structures
> which use a 32 bit integer to represent an IP address. And new socket
> options are introduced to use those new structures. This means that
> existing apps should work without a problem with the new RDS module.
> For apps which want to use IPv6, those new data structures and socket
> options can be used. IPv4 mapped address is used to represent IPv4
> address in the new data structures.

This seems to break old applications compiled with old header, no?

>
> Signed-off-by: Ka-Cheong Poon <ka-cheong.p...@oracle.com>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/rds.h |  71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  net/rds/connection.c     | 101 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  net/rds/ib.c             |  52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  net/rds/ib_mr.h          |   2 +
>  net/rds/ib_rdma.c        |  11 +++++-
>  net/rds/recv.c           |  25 ++++++++++++
>  net/rds/tcp.c            |  44 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 294 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/rds.h b/include/uapi/linux/rds.h
> index 20c6bd0..518d40f 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/rds.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/rds.h
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>  /* SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR 
> Linux-OpenIB) */
>  /*
> - * Copyright (c) 2008 Oracle.  All rights reserved.
> + * Copyright (c) 2008, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights 
> reserved.
>   *
>   * This software is available to you under a choice of one of two
>   * licenses.  You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the GNU
> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
>  #define RDS_RECVERR                    5
>  #define RDS_CONG_MONITOR               6
>  #define RDS_GET_MR_FOR_DEST            7
> -#define SO_RDS_TRANSPORT               8
> +#define SO_RDS_TRANSPORT               9

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