netdev - Re: [PATCH] add %pM printf format specifier

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Message-Id: <1225009308.3478.22.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:21:48 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	anders@...uras.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add %pM printf format specifier

On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 01:03 -0700, David Miller wrote:

> > > Nice, have you though of something similar for IPv4 and IPv6
> > > adresses?
> > 
> > Not really, are they printed often? I haven't had to touch much code
> > that printed IP addresses. Nor have I seen them in logs a lot.
> 
> It would be a nice future project for someone.  But don't worry
> about it for now.

Of course, actually adding, say, %p4 and %p6 would be trivial, but
making lots of code use it so it's useful would be another mass
conversion I'm not too keen to do again right away :)

johannes

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