Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] ARM: orion5x: Add D-Link DNS-323 based on Device Tree

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022, at 11:13 AM, maukka@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 23.9.2022 00:39, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> Can you use simple_strntoull() to parse the address into a u64 instead?
>> 
> Nice idea. Its current replacement seems to be kstrtoull().

Right.

> I'll have to do
> it byte by byte, right? Or what do you have in mind with 64bit unsigned?

I misread your code and assumed it was stored as a 12-digit
hexadecimal number, but you are right: with the colons you still
need to iterate the bytes.

I looked a little further and found the mac_pton() function
that I think does exactly what you need.

      Arnd