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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	johannes@sipsolutions.net, anders@anduras.de,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv3] printk: add %pM format specifier for MAC addresses
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:22:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225153359.5269.112.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225152339.5526.1.camel@brick>

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 17:05 -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:55 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > I'm ok with the '#' modifier but remind me again what's wrong with
> > using plain %p4 and %p6?
> Nothing at all, just wanted to know what color bikeshed you wanted.
> I'll go with %p4 %p6.

Just an FYI for v6 addresses:

There are a few uses of ipv6 address as "%08X%08X%08X%08X" 
Pavel Emelyanov tried to isolate them with a suggested patch:

http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg51655.html

These addresses are not shown in network order, but are
printed backwards in host order. Oops.  Apparently it's
too late to fix them.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-28  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-24 23:46 [PATCH] add %pM printf format specifier Johannes Berg
2008-10-25  1:41 ` Joe Perches
2008-10-25  8:00   ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-25 17:44 ` Sven Anders
2008-10-26  8:01   ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-26  8:03     ` David Miller
2008-10-26  8:21       ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-26  8:30         ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-26 19:01           ` Harvey Harrison
2008-10-26 19:33             ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-26 19:38               ` Harvey Harrison
2008-10-26 19:40                 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-26 22:39                   ` [RFC PATCH] printk: add the %pM, %p4, %p6 format specifiers Harvey Harrison
2008-10-27  0:31                     ` [RFC PATCHv2] " Harvey Harrison
2008-10-27  1:21                       ` Frans Pop
2008-10-27  2:08                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-27  6:59                       ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-27 16:28                         ` Harvey Harrison
2008-10-27 19:38                           ` David Miller
2008-10-27 19:47                             ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-27 19:59                             ` [RFC PATCHv3] printk: add %pM format specifier for MAC addresses Harvey Harrison
2008-10-27 21:55                               ` Joe Perches
2008-10-27 22:46                                 ` David Miller
2008-10-27 22:47                               ` David Miller
2008-10-27 23:14                                 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-10-27 23:31                                   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-27 23:48                                   ` Joe Perches
2008-10-28  8:04                                     ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-27 23:55                                   ` David Miller
2008-10-28  0:05                                     ` Harvey Harrison
2008-10-28  0:22                                       ` Joe Perches [this message]
2008-10-28  8:06                                         ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-26  8:38         ` [PATCH] add %pM printf format specifier Johannes Berg

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