Tuan Hoang wrote:

> 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?

There isn't any reason, unless the code was meant to allow for a
"char" being wider than 8 bits.

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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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