From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 5 16:42:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.143.238.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 542CB37B43F for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:41:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 94572 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Apr 2002 10:41:41 +1000 X-Posted-By: GJB-Post 2.25 04-Mar-2002 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-Uptime: 86 days, 16:59 X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-GPG-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-PGP-Public-Keys: http://www.gbch.net/keys.html Message-Id: Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 10:41:41 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Peter Radcliffe , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet address format changes. References: <200204051801.g35I1Xl52628@apollo.backplane.com> <20020405181104.GA2191@pir.net> <200204051846.g35IkTJ54788@apollo.backplane.com> In-reply-to: <200204051846.g35IkTJ54788@apollo.backplane.com> of Fri, 05 Apr 2002 10:46:29 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: | :> Comments? | : | :As a datapoint, Solaris ifconfig and sparc OBP will print ethernet | :addresses without leading 0s. | : | :Not that I think freebsd's behaviour should have changed, but it is | :done elsewhere. | | This brings up the question as to whether we should 'fix' this in | -current and -stable, or just fix it in -stable and leave current | alone (i.e. make the new format, without leading zero's, the standard | for -current). Please make sure that the old format is restored in -stable and continued in -current. Any gratuitous change of data that is a target for parsing by scripts is a step in the wrong direction. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message