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

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Message-Id: <20070824.231435.77347129.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:14:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	linville@...driver.com
Cc:	johannes@...solutions.net, joe@...ches.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.24] introduce MAC_FMT/MAC_ARG

From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:08:30 -0400

> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 06:12:00PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, accomodating non-48-bit MAC addresses is a bit pedantic.
> 
> I ACK the original patch, FWIW.

I like the patch too, applied to net-2.6.24, thanks everyone.
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