From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3CA1E962.471968E8@mvista.com> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:46:42 -0500 From: "Mark A. Greer" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Sokolov Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: EV-64260-BP & GT64260 bi_recs References: <0203271732.AA04381@ivan.Harhan.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Michael Sokolov wrote: > Mark A. Greer wrote: > > > Forget the last one, here's attempt #3: > > I can live with this. I like it too. > 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? Yes, it is ASCII. I prefer the actual 6 bytes too but I know others have expressed a strong preference for ASCII when dumping the bi_rec data (although in this example the mac addr is just as easy to read in a hex dump). Does anyone have a problem if the MAC address is changed to be binary? Come to think of it, since its of BI_DEV_TYPE_GT_ETH we can probably do what we want since it only affects us. Let'see if anyone comes up with a valid reason not to change... Mark ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/