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. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
