On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 06:16:57PM -0800, Doug Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 10:25 AM Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 2:03 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 03:35:36PM -0800, dje--- via wrote:
> >> > Add support for ipv6 host forwarding
> >> >
> >> > This patchset takes the original patch from Maxim,
> >> > https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg569573.html
> >> > and updates it.
> >> >
> >> > New option: -ipv6-hostfwd
> >> >
> >> > New commands: ipv6_hostfwd_add, ipv6_hostfwd_remove
> >> >
> >> > These are the ipv6 equivalents of their ipv4 counterparts.
> >>
> >> Before I noticed this v3, I send a reply to your v2 sugesting
> >> that we don't need to add any new commands/options. We can
> >> use existing inet_parse() helper function to parse the address
> >> info and transparently support IPv4/6 in the existing commands
> >> and options. This matches normal practice elsewhere in QEMU
> >> for IP dual stack.
> >>
> >
> > I'm all for this, fwiw.
> >
>
>
> I should say I'm all for not adding new commands/options.
> Looking at inet_parse() it cannot be used as-is.
> The question then becomes: Will refactoring it buy enough?
What's the problem your hitting with inet_parse ?
First, this is the inet_parse() function we're talking about, right?
int inet_parse(InetSocketAddress *addr, const char *str, Error **errp)