Re: [PATCH 3/3] staging: brcm80211: fix to use "%pM" flag to printMAC address

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Sun Oct 10 2010 - 06:44:19 EST


On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 13:20 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> char *bcm_ether_ntoa(const struct ether_addr *ea, char *buf)
> {
> - static const char template[] = "%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x";
> - snprintf(buf, 18, template,
> - ea->octet[0] & 0xff, ea->octet[1] & 0xff, ea->octet[2] & 0xff,
> - ea->octet[3] & 0xff, ea->octet[4] & 0xff, ea->octet[5] & 0xff);
> + snprintf(buf, 18, "%pM", ea->octet);

That's a pretty strange use of snprintf -- just use sprintf if you don't
have a real buffer length.

johannes

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