Re: IRe: [PATCH] vsprintf: flowinfo in IPv6 is optional too
From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Wed Feb 03 2016 - 16:10:18 EST
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Why does this matter at all?
Because I want to printk a sockaddr_in6, and have the most complete
yet valid and standard representation I can. Displaying a /0 when
there is no flow is confusing, ugly, and unhelpful, not to mention it
doesn't accurately reflect what's happening. A flowlabel of zero means
no flowlabel.