netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET: Officially deprecate "ether=" in favour of "netdev=".

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711150030380.20983@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:32:10 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux M68K mailing list <linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Officially deprecate "ether=" in favour of
 "netdev=".

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

... relevant patch snipped ...

> Why bother. I would removing it?

i tried that once, and a number of people promptly had kittens over
the thought of simply yanking a working kernel parameter without
giving everyone at least a year's notice.

rday

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