netdev - Re: [patch] ipv4: Update ip command line processing (take II)

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Message-Id: <20071225.205543.240106823.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:55:43 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	horms@...ge.net.au
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	apw@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch] ipv4: Update ip command line processing (take II)

From: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:59:05 +0900

> Recently the documentation in Documentation/nfsroot.txt was
> update to note that in fact ip=off and ip=::::::off as the
> latter is ignored and the default (on) is used.
> 
> This was certainly a step in the direction of reducing confusion.
> But it seems to me that the code ought to be fixed up so that
> ip=::::::off actually turns off ip autoconfiguration.
> 
> This patch also notes more specifically that ip=on (aka ip=::::::on)
> is the default.
> 
> Cc: Amos Waterland <apw@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>

I applied this to net-2.6 since I think it's a bug fix, and
I also tailored the changelog header to more it clear this
is a fix not just an "Update". :-)

Thanks!

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