# Re: \[PATCH net-next v5 1/2\] net, treewide: define and use MAC\_ADDR\_STR\_LEN

- From: Simon Horman \<horms@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2025-02-25 14:40:25 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2025/02/2943401
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2025/02/2937015/t.md

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 06:29:20PM -0700, Uday Shankar wrote:
> There are a few places in the tree which compute the length of the
> string representation of a MAC address as 3 * ETH_ALEN - 1. Define a
> constant for this and use it where relevant. No functionality changes
> are expected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <redacted>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <redacted>
> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>

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