linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] net/ipv4, net/ipv6: use %#p6, %p6 format strings

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Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:26:14 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] net/ipv4, net/ipv6: use %#p6, %p6 format
	strings

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 22:47 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 22:35 -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > I thought about this, and it will work if the one place that passes
> > NIP6_FMT into sscanf gets changed at the same time.  Otherwise,
> > doing it in-place is probably safer.
> 
> Maybe sscanf should be updated to support these new %p<foo> types.

That would be an interesting thing too, though it makes little sense for
F, S and R.

I, however, just wanted to get rid of DECLARE_MAC_BUF :)

johannes

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