mirrors
/
linux-stable
mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity

printk: add %pM format specifier for MAC addresses 

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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Harvey Harrison 2008-10-27 15:47:12 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 1080d709fb
commit dd45c9cf68
1 changed files with 21 additions and 0 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

21
lib/vsprintf.c
View File

@ -581,6 +581,23 @@ static char *resource_string(char *buf, char *end, struct resource *res, int fie
return string(buf, end, sym, field_width, precision, flags);
}
static char *mac_address_string(char *buf, char *end, u8 *addr, int field_width,
int precision, int flags)
{
char mac_addr[6 * 3]; /* (6 * 2 hex digits), 5 colons and trailing zero */
char *p = mac_addr;
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
p = pack_hex_byte(p, addr[i]);
if (!(flags & SPECIAL) && i != 5)
*p++ = ':';
}
*p = '\0';
return string(buf, end, mac_addr, field_width, precision, flags & ~SPECIAL);
}
/*
* Show a '%p' thing. A kernel extension is that the '%p' is followed
* by an extra set of alphanumeric characters that are extended format
@ -592,6 +609,8 @@ static char *resource_string(char *buf, char *end, struct resource *res, int fie
* - 'S' For symbolic direct pointers
* - 'R' For a struct resource pointer, it prints the range of
* addresses (not the name nor the flags)
* - 'M' For a 6-byte MAC address, it prints the address in the
* usual colon-separated hex notation
*
* Note: The difference between 'S' and 'F' is that on ia64 and ppc64
* function pointers are really function descriptors, which contain a
@ -607,6 +626,8 @@ static char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf, char *end, void *ptr, int field
return symbol_string(buf, end, ptr, field_width, precision, flags);
case 'R':
return resource_string(buf, end, ptr, field_width, precision, flags);
case 'M':
return mac_address_string(buf, end, ptr, field_width, precision, flags);
}
flags |= SMALL;
if (field_width == -1) {