Re: [PATCH] lib/vsprintf.c: Add %pMF to format FDDI bit reversed MAC addresses

["Michał Mirosław" <mirqus@gmail.com>]

2010/1/7 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 23:43 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>> > The example below shows an address, and the sequence of bits or symbols
>> > that would be transmitted when the address is used in the Source Address
>> > or Destination Address fields on the MAC header.  The transmission line
>> > shows the address bits in the order transmitted, from left to right.  For
>> > IEEE 802 LANs these correspond to actual bits on the medium.  The FDDI
>> > symbols line shows how the FDDI PHY sends the address bits as encoded
>> > symbols.
>> >
>> >         MSB:            35:7B:12:00:00:01
>> >         Canonical:      AC-DE-48-00-00-80
>> >         Transmission:   00110101 01111011 00010010 00000000 00000000 00000001
>> >         FDDI Symbols:   35 7B 12 00 00 01"
>> >
>> > Please note that this address has its group bit clear.
>> >
>> >  This notation is also defined in the "FDDI MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL-2
>> > (MAC-2)" (X3T9/92-120) document although that book does not have a need
>> > to use the MSB form and it's skipped.
>>
>> Adds 56 bytes to object size
>>
>> New:
>> $ size lib/vsprintf.o
>>    text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
>>    8714             0       2    8716    220c lib/vsprintf.o
>> old:
>> $ size lib/vsprintf.o
>>    text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
>>    8658             0       2    8660    21d4 lib/vsprintf.o
>
>  What's the gain?  I'd be rather conservative when taking everybody's 56
> bytes for one or two drivers hardly anybody uses.  The format of MAC
> addresses is unlikely to change, so I'd say the sources can live with
> one or two places where the strings are formatted manually.  Even if the
> drivers lose more than these 56 bytes.

Maybe this can be Kconfig-selected by the relevant drivers then?

BTW, the gain is of course consistency and code readability.

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław