On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:

Use the %pM kernel extension to display the MAC address.

The only difference in the output is that the MAC address is
shown in the usual colon-separated hex notation.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

 Nack.  While I appreciate your effort, the FDDI standard defines opposite 
bit-ordering for MAC addresses written in the dash-separated and the 
colon-separated hexadecimal notation, which makes your change invalid, 
sorry (you'd have to bit-swap them too and that would make addresses 
counter-intuitive).  Please note that `ifconfig' consistently uses the 
dash-separated notation for FDDI interfaces too (I haven't checked other 
tools like those in the "iproute" package; they may be buggy).

 [I'd appreciate to be CCed on patch submissions to code I claim 
maintenance of too.]

  Maciej