ether_nonstatic_aton() and cdce(4)

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

Hi,

ether_nonstatic_aton(9) currently insists on input in the form of
"01:23:45:AB:cD:ef".

The USB CDC ECM spec indicates the above address be represented as
"012345ABCDEF".

I'd like to make ether_nonstatic_aton() much less strict;
accepting 6 nibble pairs each optionally followed by a ispunct().

Objections, or should I just create a cdce_ether_nonstatic_aton()?

Jonathan Kollasch

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[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

Post by Jonathan A. Kollasch
I'd like to make ether_nonstatic_aton() much less strict;
accepting 6 nibble pairs each optionally followed by a ispunct().

Proposed change in the patch attached.
(Sorry about the whitespace diff.)

It seems slightly rude to corrupt the caller's string.
Shouldn't the source string argument be const char *?

Jonathan Kollasch