Hi,

I was just curious as to why each byte in the hardware address is 
masked with 0377 in the code that prints it out.  The function is
pr_ether() in lib/ether.c.  Is the simple answer "because the
kernel does this" so we must un-mask it?

Thanks,
Tuan


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