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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708281300030.18151@localhost.localdomain> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:03:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: ok to kill "ether=" kernel parm? On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > given that "ether=" has been officially obsolete since 2.6.18 > > (replaced by "netdev="), is there any reason to keep it around? > > or can it be blasted? > > That sounds like way too short of a timeline for breaking people's > working boot setup. For a lot of people, 2.6.18->current is going > to be a single step. actually, now that i look more closely at the code browser at lxr.linux.no, "ether=" has been listed as "obsolete" since *at least* 2.6.10. not to sound unsympathetic but anyone who tries to jump from 2.6.10 to 2.6.24 in one step deserves what they get. :-) ok, that was cruel, but you see my point, right? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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