On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 03:21:40PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > 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?
*facepalm* I didn't know that format, but it satisfies my needs. I am not aware of bluetooth or fddi using eui64, so I've no problem withdrawing the patch. I'll just fix up the one that depended on it. -- 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/