Re: Logging which interface was connected to in log_line_prefix

On 01.05.24 19:04, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to review this. I've attached a new
> rebased version, which has no significant changes.
>
> There is a comment in the patch that states:
>
> /* We do not need clean_ipv6_addr here: just report verbatim */
>
> I am not quite sure what it means, but I am guessing it means that
> the patch does not need to format the IPv6 addresses in any specific
> way.
>
>
> Yes, basically correct. There is a kluge (their word, not mine) in
> utils/adt/network.c to strip the zone - see the comment for the
> clean_ipv6_addr() function in that file. I added the patch comment in
> case some future person wonders why we don't "clean up" the ipv6
> address, like other places in the code base do. We don't need to pass it
> back to anything else, so we can simply output the correct version, zone
> and all.

clean_ipv6_addr() needs to be called before trying to convert a string
representation into inet/cidr types. This is not what is happening
here. So the comment is not applicable.