From 28194fcdc150e4d5b418d01db3c29058f60ef32c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amerigo Wang Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:06:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] net: add doc for in6_pton() It is not easy to use in6_pton() correctly without reading its definition, so add some doc for it. Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/utils.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/core/utils.c b/net/core/utils.c index f5613d569c23..30f3879faecc 100644 --- a/net/core/utils.c +++ b/net/core/utils.c @@ -161,6 +161,18 @@ out: } EXPORT_SYMBOL(in4_pton); +/** + * in6_pton - convert an IPv6 address from literal to binary representation + * @src: the start of the IPv6 address string + * @srclen: the length of the string, -1 means strlen(src) + * @dst: the binary (u8[16] array) representation of the IPv6 address + * @delim: the delimiter of the IPv6 address in @src, -1 means no delimiter + * @end: A pointer to the end of the parsed string will be placed here + * + * Return one on success, return zero when any error occurs + * and @end will point to the end of the parsed string. + * + */ int in6_pton(const char *src, int srclen, u8 *dst, int delim, const char **end) -- 2.20.1