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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.24] introduce MAC_FMT/MAC_ARG
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:01:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1187884912.32738.24.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187808408.4314.15.camel@johannes.berg>

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 20:46 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> The two different wireless code bases both define macros to ease
> printing MAC addresses:

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.

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


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-23 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-22 18:46 [PATCH net-2.6.24] introduce MAC_FMT/MAC_ARG Johannes Berg
2007-08-23 16:01 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2007-08-23 16:12   ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-23 17:08     ` John W. Linville
2007-08-25  6:14       ` David Miller
2007-08-26  0:09 ` Joe Perches
2007-08-27 10:54   ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-27 15:44     ` Joe Perches
2007-08-27 20:41     ` David Miller
     [not found]       ` <1188248263.18004.131.camel@localhost>
2007-08-27 21:09         ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-08-27 21:11         ` David Miller
     [not found]         ` <200708281648.44352.mb@bu3sch.de>
     [not found]           ` <20070828.155419.74563234.davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-29 17:46             ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-27 21:26       ` Joe Perches
2007-08-27 21:37         ` David Miller
     [not found]           ` <1188335521.6062.56.camel@localhost>
     [not found]             ` <20070828.142216.99461544.davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-31 22:16               ` Joe Perches
2007-08-31 22:21                 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-31 22:24                   ` Joe Perches
2007-08-31 22:27                     ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-31 22:32                     ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-31 22:39                       ` Joe Perches
2007-09-14 19:41                 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-14 19:48                   ` David Miller
2007-09-18  2:05                   ` David Miller
2007-09-18  2:14                     ` Joe Perches
2007-09-19  4:50                       ` Joe Perches
2007-09-19 18:11                         ` David Miller
2007-09-19 18:50                           ` Joe Perches
2007-09-19 19:54                             ` David Miller
2007-09-24 17:28                               ` Joe Perches

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