netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6.24] introduce MAC_FMT/MAC

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Message-Id: <1187884912.32738.24.camel@localhost>
Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:01:51 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.24] introduce MAC_FMT/MAC_ARG

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 20:46 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> The two different wireless code bases both define macros to ease
> printing MAC addresses:

There are also several different uses of the equivalent of

	printk("%02x",addr[0])
	for (i=1; i<6; i++)
		printk(":%02x",addr[i]);

to print an ethernet MAC address.

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/0602.1/0002.html

As not all device MAC addresses are 6 bytes, colon separated,
perhaps an appropriate ethernet/tr MAC designation is EUI48.

http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/tutorials/EUI48.html

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