On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 16:06 -0700, Keith Busch wrote: > MAC addresses may be formed using rules based on EUI-64, which is 2 bytes > longer than a typical 6-byte MAC. This patch adds a long specifier to > the %pM format to support the extended unique identifier. > > Since there are multiple valid possible permutations of format specifiers, > the decoding is done in a loop, and the default ':' separator is > initialized at declaration time. A side effect of this allows 'F' and > 'R' both be specified, so these are appended to the documentation.
Just thought of this: An alternative is using a format of "%8phC" Is there a use case for a bluetooth or FDDI EUI-64? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
