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

2007-11-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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 ==

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

2007-11-14 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Robert P. J. Day wrote: Given that it's well established that the "ether=" kernel parameter is deprecated in favour of the newer "netdev=", might as well make it official. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |6 ++ Documen

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

2007-11-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Given that it's well established that the "ether=" kernel parameter is deprecated in favour of the newer "netdev=", might as well make it official. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |6 ++ Documentation/kernel-parameters.