Instead of statically complaining about illegal inet address, use get_family() to get the address family right.
Based on a patch by Hangbin Liu to print "inet6" for AF_INET6 made more generic by me. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc> --- lib/utils.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/utils.c b/lib/utils.c index b7bdb9d..939a44f 100644 --- a/lib/utils.c +++ b/lib/utils.c @@ -531,7 +531,8 @@ done: int get_addr(inet_prefix *dst, const char *arg, int family) { if (get_addr_1(dst, arg, family)) { - fprintf(stderr, "Error: an %s address is expected rather than \"%s\".\n", (family == AF_INET6 ? "inet6" : "inet") ,arg); + fprintf(stderr, "Error: %s address is expected rather than \"%s\".\n", + family_name(family) ,arg); exit(1); } return 0; @@ -544,7 +545,8 @@ int get_prefix(inet_prefix *dst, char *arg, int family) exit(1); } if (get_prefix_1(dst, arg, family)) { - fprintf(stderr, "Error: an %s prefix is expected rather than \"%s\".\n", (family == AF_INET6 ? "inet6" : "inet") ,arg); + fprintf(stderr, "Error: %s prefix is expected rather than \"%s\".\n", + family_name(family) ,arg); exit(1); } return 0; -- 2.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html