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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:58:57 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: joe@...ches.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: sysfs_format_mac From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:46:26 -0700 > On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 12:56 -0700, David Miller wrote: >> >> I assume that the only reason sysfs_format_mac() exists at all, and >> don't just use scnprintf() calls with "%pm\n", is that some devices >> have MAC addresses which are not 6 bytes in length. >> >> But it's such a waste to have this special case piece of code >> just for that. >> >> It would make so much more sense to allow specifying a length >> specifier to %pm and friends. > > scnprintf("%*ph", (int)size, buffer) Yes, exactly, something like that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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