Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:31:53 +0300 | From | Alexey Dobriyan <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCHv3] printk: add %pM format specifier for MAC addresses |
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 04:14:14PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 15:47 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> > > Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:59:02 -0700 > > > > > Add format specifiers for printing out six colon-separated bytes: > > > > > > MAC addresses (%pM): > > > xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > > > > > > %#pM is also supported and omits the colon separators. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> > > > > Applied, thanks. > > Did you happen to have a preference with regard to the specifier for > IPv6 addresses: > > I was thinking of using %pI6 to replace NIP6() and NIP6_FMT and using > %#pI6 for NIP6_SEQFMT. > > On the IPv4 side, maybe use %pI4 for network endian NIPQUAD() and NIPQUAD_FMT > and then %#pI4 for host-endian HIQUAD(), as displaying the IPv4 address without > the periods isn't useful?
%#pI4 is horrible and %p4 and %p6 were cool.
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