netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/8021q/vlan_dev.c

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Date:	Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:55:25 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	joe@...ches.com, bruno@...nktube.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linville@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/8021q/vlan_dev.c - Use print_mac

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:19:40 +0100

> Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 02:58 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Bruno Randolf <bruno@...nktube.com>
> >> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:48:05 +0900
> >>> is there any chance to include a macro like this for printing mac
> >> addresses?
> >>> its advantage is that it can be used without the need to declare
> >> buffers for
> >>> print_mac(), for example:
> >> We specifically removed this sort of thing, please don't
> >> add it back.
> 
> Why?

We converted the entire tree over the print_mac(), and since
the MAC_FMT stuff was therefore no longer used we could
remove it.

Some references slipped back in somehow, and thus MAC_FMT
did too.

There is no reason to keep around a global interface for
_one_ user when that user can use the recommended interface
just as equally as the rest of the tree which we converted.

This is a pr_debug() statement we're talking about here.
:-)
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