From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: , Subject: Re: EV-64260-BP & GT64260 bi_recs Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:48:51 +0100 Message-Id: <20020327174851.14516@mailhost.mipsys.com> In-Reply-To: <0203271732.AA04381@ivan.Harhan.ORG> References: <0203271732.AA04381@ivan.Harhan.ORG> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >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. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/