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

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Message-ID: <20071226050435.GA18934@verge.net.au>
Date:	Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:04:37 +0900
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	apw@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch] ipv4: Update ip command line processing (take II)

On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 08:55:43PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> 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". :-)

Ok, thanks.

-- 
Horms

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