lwip: Support family
specification in getaddrinfo.
#17446
+14
−3
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Summary
socket.getaddrinfo() supports the specification of an address family; however, the LwIP implementation does not use it. This change allows the application to specify the address family request in DNS resolution. If no family is specified, it falls back to the default preference configured with network.ipconfig().
Testing
I've done some minimal testing on this using an RP2040 and a Wiznet W5100S. It works as expected and returns the address of the family requested. For example: