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Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:41:42 -0500 (EST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: paul.gortmaker@...driver.com Cc: fabio.estevam@...escale.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de, shawn.guo@...escale.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fec: Remove macaddr option From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 17:18:36 -0500 > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 4:29 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote: >> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@...escale.com> >> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:25:04 -0200 >> >>> "macaddr" option allows users to pass the MAC address via kernel command line. >>> >>> Feedbacks from Alan Cox and David Miller (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg57821.html ) >>> mention that this is not a good idea, so remove it. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@...escale.com> >> >> Whilst we can prevent new additions of such module options, you can't >> just go and remove them from existing drivers without potentially >> breaking things for people. >> >> In this FEC case, the option was added more than a year ago. >> >> I'm not applying this patch. > > How about a patch to feature-removal-schedule.txt instead? No. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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