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From: benh@kernel.crashing.org
To: <msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG>, <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: EV-64260-BP & GT64260 bi_recs
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:48:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020327174851.14516@mailhost.mipsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0203271732.AA04381@ivan.Harhan.ORG>


>But why is the MAC address in ASCII? Why not simply put the 6 bytes in there?
>Why the extra burden of parsing the ASCII?

Well, I would put the 6 bytes, I beleive he wrote it to make it
readable for us ;)

The point of bi_recs is indeed to avoid ascii (to avoid wasting too
much space). Or else we would just use a device_tree or an xml
tree :)

Ben.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-27 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-27 17:32 EV-64260-BP & GT64260 bi_recs Michael Sokolov
2002-03-27 15:46 ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-27 17:48 ` benh [this message]
2002-03-27 15:59   ` Mark A. Greer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-27 20:09 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-27 18:53 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-27 19:37 ` benh
2002-03-27 18:34 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-27 18:32 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-27 18:46 ` benh
2002-03-27 18:03 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-27 16:16 ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-27 16:24   ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-27 18:40   ` benh
2002-03-27 18:02     ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-27 18:06       ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-27  2:37 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-26 21:52 ` benh
2002-03-27 14:15   ` Matt Porter
2002-03-27 15:10     ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-27 15:15       ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-27 17:47         ` benh
2002-03-28  9:14       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-03-27  1:35 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-26 23:48 ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-24 16:02 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-21  2:13 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-21  6:39 ` Dan Malek
2002-03-31  8:32   ` Paul Mackerras
2002-04-01 18:39     ` Dan Malek
2002-04-02  5:32       ` Paul Mackerras
2002-04-02 16:33         ` Tom Rini
2002-04-02 17:29         ` Dan Malek
2002-04-02 14:42           ` Armin
2002-04-02 20:12           ` Tom Rini
2002-04-02 21:02             ` Dan Malek
2002-04-03  0:21               ` Tom Rini
     [not found] <dan@embeddededge.com>
     [not found] ` <3C98DA15.50302@embeddededge.com>
2002-03-21  1:11   ` Murray Jensen
2002-03-21  6:50     ` Dan Malek
2002-03-21 11:05       ` Murray Jensen
2002-03-21  1:10 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-21  0:57 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-21  6:58 ` Dan Malek
2002-03-21  0:47 Michael Sokolov
     [not found] <3C98B189.78A92DFE@mvista.com>
2002-03-20 18:12 ` Wolfgang Denk
     [not found]   ` <3C98DB49.2C3A2F79@mvista.com>
2002-03-23  3:49     ` Val Henson
2002-03-20 17:11 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-20 18:06 ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-03-20 17:04 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-20 17:25 ` Tom Rini
2002-03-21 20:36 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2002-03-21 19:17   ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-21 21:36     ` Jim Potter
     [not found] <20020320164025.31626@mailhost.mipsys.com>
2002-03-20 16:59 ` Wolfgang Denk
     [not found] <20020320155551.GD3762@opus.bloom.county>
2002-03-20 16:18 ` Wolfgang Denk
     [not found] <20020320150119.GB3762@opus.bloom.county>
2002-03-20 15:43 ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-03-20  1:02 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-20  0:43 Michael Sokolov
2002-03-19 23:00 ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-20  7:55   ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-03-20 13:19 ` benh
2002-03-20 15:30   ` Michael Sokolov
2002-03-20 16:19     ` Tom Rini
2002-03-20 16:58       ` benh
2002-03-23  4:01         ` Val Henson
2002-03-23 13:07           ` Murray Jensen
2002-03-24 12:22             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-03-24 12:20           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-03-24 19:09             ` Val Henson
2002-03-24 16:46               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-03-25  8:51                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-03-24 18:16                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-03-26  2:16                 ` Val Henson
2002-03-26 10:05                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-03-24 19:38               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-03-24 16:55                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-03-24 17:18                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-03-25  0:44               ` Murray Jensen
2002-03-25 22:05                 ` Val Henson
2002-03-26  3:21             ` Val Henson
2002-03-26  4:14               ` Murray Jensen
2002-03-26 10:14               ` benh
2002-03-26 12:05                 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-03-26 12:18                   ` benh
2002-03-26 23:24             ` Mark A. Greer
2002-03-26 21:40               ` benh
2002-03-27 15:13                 ` Mark A. Greer
     [not found] <20020320000500.GV3762@opus.bloom.county>
2002-03-20  0:28 ` Wolfgang Denk
     [not found] <20020319235815.GU3762@opus.bloom.county>
2002-03-20  0:24 ` Wolfgang Denk
     [not found] <20020319224420.GO3762@opus.bloom.county>
2002-03-19 23:00 ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-03-20  0:03 ` Gabriel Paubert
     [not found] <20020319231628.GQ3762@opus.bloom.county>
2002-03-19 23:46 ` Wolfgang Denk
     [not found] <3C97A9C1.EBA150B6@mvista.com>
2002-03-19 23:36 ` Wolfgang Denk

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