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Message-Id: <1224893395.3919.39.camel@johannes.berg>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:09:55 +0200
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH/RFC] deprecate print_mac
Or more precisely, deprecate the variables that DECLARE_MAC_BUF
creates, DECLARE_MAC_BUF is required for print_mac and the latter
uses the created variables.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
---
I don't think we want this without the bulk of the users removed. And
after that, it should be removed before long anyway.
include/linux/if_ether.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- everything.orig/include/linux/if_ether.h 2008-10-25 02:02:02.000000000 +0200
+++ everything/include/linux/if_ether.h 2008-10-25 02:05:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -133,12 +133,12 @@ extern struct ctl_table ether_table[];
extern ssize_t sysfs_format_mac(char *buf, const unsigned char *addr, int len);
/*
- * Display a 6 byte device address (MAC) in a readable format.
+ * Use the %pM printf format specifier instead of this.
*/
extern char *print_mac(char *buf, const unsigned char *addr);
#define MAC_FMT "%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x"
#define MAC_BUF_SIZE 18
-#define DECLARE_MAC_BUF(var) char var[MAC_BUF_SIZE] __maybe_unused
+#define DECLARE_MAC_BUF(var) char var[MAC_BUF_SIZE] __maybe_unused __deprecated
#endif
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