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