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Date:	Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:57:23 +0100
From:	Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@...ionengravers.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/skfp/skfddi.c: use %pMF to show MAC address

2010/1/8 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>:
> On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 11:02 +1100, Simon Horman wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:27:46PM -0700, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
>> > Use the %pMF kernel extension to display the MAC address.
>> > The address will still be displayed in the FDDI Canonical format.
>> I'm not sure that it matters, but prior to this patch
>> the address was displayed with octets delimited by spaces,
>> and afterwards its delimited by hyphens. So perhaps the comment
>> should read:
>>
>> The address will now be displayed in the FDDI Canonical format.
> And it probably wasn't bit reversed.
>> > diff --git a/drivers/net/skfp/skfddi.c b/drivers/net/skfp/skfddi.c
>> > index db216a7..1f9698c 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/net/skfp/skfddi.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/net/skfp/skfddi.c
>> > @@ -435,13 +435,7 @@ static  int skfp_driver_init(struct net_device *dev)
>> >             goto fail;
>> >     }
>> >     read_address(smc, NULL);
>> > -   pr_debug(KERN_INFO "HW-Addr: %02x %02x %02x %02x %02x %02x\n",
>> > -          smc->hw.fddi_canon_addr.a[0],
>> > -          smc->hw.fddi_canon_addr.a[1],
>> > -          smc->hw.fddi_canon_addr.a[2],
>> > -          smc->hw.fddi_canon_addr.a[3],
>> > -          smc->hw.fddi_canon_addr.a[4],
>> > -          smc->hw.fddi_canon_addr.a[5]);
>> > +   pr_debug(KERN_INFO "HW-Addr: %pMF\n", smc->hw.fddi_canon_addr.a);
> Is fddi_canon_addr already bit reversed?
> It's memcpy'd to dev->dev_addr later, so probably not.
>
>> >     smt_reset_defaults(smc, 0);
>> > @@ -890,15 +884,8 @@ static void skfp_ctl_set_multicast_list_wo_lock(struct net_device *dev)
>> >                                                       (struct fddi_addr *)dmi->dmi_addr,
>> >                                                       1);
>> >
>> > -                                   pr_debug(KERN_INFO "ENABLE MC ADDRESS:");
>> > -                                   pr_debug(" %02x %02x %02x ",
>> > -                                          dmi->dmi_addr[0],
>> > -                                          dmi->dmi_addr[1],
>> > -                                          dmi->dmi_addr[2]);
>> > -                                   pr_debug("%02x %02x %02x\n",
>> > -                                          dmi->dmi_addr[3],
>> > -                                          dmi->dmi_addr[4],
>> > -                                          dmi->dmi_addr[5]);
>> > +                                   pr_debug(KERN_INFO "ENABLE MC ADDRESS: %pMF\n",
>> > +                                           dmi->dmi_addr);
> I think you want %pM here, not the bit-reversed %pMF form.

You could add %pMf for those, that are bit-reversed already? That
should take at most two extra insns for x86. ;)

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław
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