Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2023 16:17:04 +0200 | From | Simon Horman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] mac_pton: support more MAC address formats |
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 11:39:55PM +0000, Michael Pratt wrote: > Currently, mac_pton() strictly requires the standard ASCII MAC address format > with colons as the delimiter, however, > some hardware vendors don't store the address like that. > > If there is no delimiter, one could use strtoul() > but that would leave out important checks to make sure > that each character in the string is hexadecimal. > > This series adds support for other delimiters > and lack of any delimiter to the mac_pton() function. > > Tested with Openwrt on a MIPS system (ar9344).
Hi Michael,
I am wondering if you considered a different approach where, via parameters and/or new helpers, callers can specify the delimiter, or absence thereof.
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