linux-kernel - Re: ok to kill "ether=" kernel parm?

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Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:12:43 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ok to kill "ether=" kernel parm?


On Aug 28 2007 10:23, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>What's the upside of changing?  What's the downside?  The upside is so
>infinitesimal that that leaving "ether=" in indefinitely seems like a
>good move to me.

Then why did it change to netdev= in the first place...



	Jan
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