[PATCH] arch/powerpc/boot/devtree.c: use %pM to show MAC address

H Hartley Sweeten hartleys at visionengravers.com
Fri Jan 1 01:33:55 EST 2010


On Wednesday, December 30, 2009 9:49 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:30:39PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
>
>> Use the %pM kernel extension to display the MAC address.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten at visionengravers.com>
>> 
>> ---
>
> Nak - this isn't the kernel, this is a separate program, namely the
> bootwrapper that decompresses the kernel image, and it has its own
> printf (not printk) implementation in arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.c, which
> doesn't understand the %pX extensions (and I don't see any good reason
> to make it do so).

OK.  Sorry for the noise.

Regards,
Hartley


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