Re: [RFC PATCHv3] printk: add %pM format specifier for MACaddresses

[Johannes Berg]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:48 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:14 -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> HIPQUAD is horrible and should disappear.
> Just use htonl first.

But you can't really say

printk("... %p4 ...", &htonl(host_ip4));

can you? I suppose the compiler would actually create a variable for
that?

johannes

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