On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 09:01 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> There are also several different uses of the equivalent of
>
> printk("%02x",addr[0])
> for (i=1; i<6; i++)
> printk(":%02x",addr[i]);
>
> to print an ethernet MAC address.Hm. I didn't know that, I can go through in a later patch if desired. > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/0602.1/0002.html > > As not all device MAC addresses are 6 bytes, colon separated, > perhaps an appropriate ethernet/tr MAC designation is EUI48. > > http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/tutorials/EUI48.html Practically, however, nobody is going to even find macros named EUI48_FMT/EUI48_ARG, would they? I don't much care, but I find it rather unsatisfying that both wireless code bases define these macros. johannes
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