On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 08:56:59AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
On 27/04/2023 13.51, Konrad Gräfe wrote:
The CDC-ECM specification requires an USB gadget to send the host MAC address as uppercase hex string. This change adds the appropriate modifier.
Thinking more about it, I'm not sure this is appropriate, not for a single user like this. vsprintf() should not and cannot satisfy all possible string formatting requirements for the whole kernel. The %pX extensions are convenient for use with printk() and friends where one needs what in other languages would be "string interpolation" (because then the caller doesn't need to deal with temporary stack buffers and pass them as %s arguments), but for single items like this, snprintf() is not necessarily the right tool for the job.
But sprintf() already creates mac address strings today, adding yet-another-modifier makes it so that we don't have to hand-roll this type of logic in the individual drivers that require it.
thanks,
greg k-h