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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: Aman Singh <aman.deep.singh@intel.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] net: added macro to extract MAC address bytes
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 08:25:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210817082543.21ae2483@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b0c151c-fc49-59f2-863c-233f419f4d40@intel.com>

On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 09:11:17 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:

> On 8/17/2021 12:03 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:27:28 +0530
> > Aman Singh <aman.deep.singh@intel.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> Added macros to simplify print of MAC address.
> >> The six bytes of a MAC address are extracted in
> >> a macro here, to improve code readablity.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Aman Singh <aman.deep.singh@intel.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> >> ---
> >> The change in the document will be done in seperate patch.
> >> To ensure document has direct reference of the code as shown in
> >> commit 413c75c33c40 ("doc: show how to include code in guides").  
> > 
> > NAK
> > The DPDK already has rte_ether_format_addr()
> > why does so much code not use it?
> >   
> 
> 'rte_ether_format_addr()' formats string to a buffer, but most of the times the
> need is just to log and having a buffer for it is unnecessary.
> 
> Both macros look useful to me.

Yes, but it would be good if same format was used everywhere.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-17 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-16  9:57 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] Use macro to print MAC address Aman Singh
2021-08-16  9:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] net: added macro for MAC address print Aman Singh
2021-08-16  9:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] net: added macro to extract MAC address bytes Aman Singh
2021-08-16 23:03   ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-08-17  8:11     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-08-17 15:25       ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2021-08-17 16:44         ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-08-17 17:00           ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-08-18  8:23             ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-08-18 16:47               ` Stephen Hemminger

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