Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] net, treewide: define and use MAC_ADDR_LEN

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2025-02-04 at 14:41 -0700, Uday Shankar wrote:
> There are a few places in the tree which compute the length of the
> string representation of a MAC address as 3 * ETH_ALEN - 1. Define a
> constant for this and use it where relevant. No functionality changes
> are expected.

True ... but is "MAC_ADDR_LEN" really an appropriate name for that? Just
plain reading the subject, my first thought was why you weren't going to
use ETH_ALEN.

Would seem nicer to me, at least, to have something indicating a
*string* in there, e.g. MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN or so.

johannes