Re: [PATCH net-2.6.24] introduce MAC_FMT/MAC_ARG

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