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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [patch iproute2] iproute2: ipa: show switch id
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 15:22:52 -0700
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On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 08:09:18 +0200
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote:

> Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 03:05:10AM CEST, stephen@networkplumber.org wrote:
> >On Wed,  8 Jul 2015 17:08:18 +0200
> >Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote:
> >
> >>  
> >> +	if (tb[IFLA_PHYS_SWITCH_ID]) {
> >> +		SPRINT_BUF(b1);
> >> +		fprintf(fp, "switchid %s ",
> >> +			hexstring_n2a(RTA_DATA(tb[IFLA_PHYS_SWITCH_ID]),
> >> +				      RTA_PAYLOAD(tb[IFLA_PHYS_SWITCH_ID]),
> >> +				      b1, sizeof(b1)));
> >> +	}
> >> +
> >
> >Ok, but why hex?
> 
> What else? It is an arbitrary byte array.

Ok I though it was a number.