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.
John
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