From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:39:02 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support
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Dear Chris,

In message <50FBB7EA.10601@gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> The POSIX solution for this is to use sockaddr which encompasses both v4
> and v6 addresses (as well as other socket types). Do we want to add a
> wrapper type or just work with void *?

Without checking for implications for the implementation I would say
that we should avoid void * and rather allow for better type checking.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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