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printk: add %pM format specifier for MAC addresses
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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>
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Harvey Harrison authored and David S. Miller committed Oct 28, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -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
Expand All @@ -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
Expand All @@ -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) {
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