[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] mount.cifs: add support for sending IPv6 scope ID to kernel

Jeff Layton jlayton at poochiereds.net
Thu Jun 25 11:51:14 GMT 2009


On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:48:52 -0400
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:

> When getaddrinfo returns an IPv6 address with a non-zero scope_id, send
> that to the kernel appended to the address with a '%' delimiter. This
> allows people to mount servers via their link-local IPv6 addresses
> (given a kernel that understands this address format, of course).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>


Committed to samba master branch.


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