linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] arch/powerpc/boot/devtree.c: use %pM to show MAC address

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Message-ID: <BD79186B4FD85F4B8E60E381CAEE19090200F6BB@mi8nycmail19.Mi8.com>
Date:	Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:33:55 -0500
From:	"H Hartley Sweeten" <hartleys@...ionengravers.com>
To:	"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] arch/powerpc/boot/devtree.c: use %pM to show MAC address

On Wednesday, December 30, 2009 9:49 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:30:39PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
>
>> Use the %pM kernel extension to display the MAC address.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@...ionengravers.com>
>> 
>> ---
>
> Nak - this isn't the kernel, this is a separate program, namely the
> bootwrapper that decompresses the kernel image, and it has its own
> printf (not printk) implementation in arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.c, which
> doesn't understand the %pX extensions (and I don't see any good reason
> to make it do so).

OK.  Sorry for the noise.

Regards,
Hartley
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