netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: fec: Remove macaddr option

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Message-Id: <20120205.174142.890338887171223255.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:41:42 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com
Cc:	fabio.estevam@...escale.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...gutronix.de, shawn.guo@...escale.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fec: Remove macaddr option

From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 17:18:36 -0500

> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 4:29 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@...escale.com>
>> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:25:04 -0200
>>
>>> "macaddr" option allows users to pass the MAC address via kernel command line.
>>>
>>> Feedbacks from Alan Cox and David Miller (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg57821.html )
>>> mention that this is not a good idea, so remove it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@...escale.com>
>>
>> Whilst we can prevent new additions of such module options, you can't
>> just go and remove them from existing drivers without potentially
>> breaking things for people.
>>
>> In this FEC case, the option was added more than a year ago.
>>
>> I'm not applying this patch.
> 
> How about a patch to feature-removal-schedule.txt instead?

No.

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