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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: sysfs_format_mac
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:56:41 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130716.125641.1190207010366517153.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)


I assume that the only reason sysfs_format_mac() exists at all, and
don't just use scnprintf() calls with "%pm\n", is that some devices
have MAC addresses which are not 6 bytes in length.

But it's such a waste to have this special case piece of code
just for that.

It would make so much more sense to allow specifying a length
specifier to %pm and friends.

             reply	other threads:[~2013-07-16 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-16 19:56 David Miller [this message]
2013-07-16 20:46 ` sysfs_format_mac Joe Perches
2013-07-16 20:58   ` sysfs_format_mac David Miller
2013-07-16 21:12     ` sysfs_format_mac Joe Perches
2013-07-16 23:25       ` sysfs_format_mac David Miller
2013-07-16 23:32         ` sysfs_format_mac Joe Perches
2013-07-16 23:41           ` sysfs_format_mac David Miller
2013-07-17  0:10           ` sysfs_format_mac David Miller

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