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

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Message-Id: <1187885520.22725.4.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:12:00 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.24] introduce MAC_FMT/MAC_ARG

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 09:01 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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.

Hm. I didn't know that, I can go through in a later patch if desired.

> 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

Practically, however, nobody is going to even find macros named
EUI48_FMT/EUI48_ARG, would they? I don't much care, but I find it rather
unsatisfying that both wireless code bases define these macros.

johannes

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