From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: ok to kill "ether=" kernel parm?
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:43:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708281843.l7SIhJ9D010636@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
It changed to be more descriptive. The old one is supported for backwards compatibility, just like we have sys_oldoldstat still.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:12
To: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>; Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ok to kill "ether=" kernel parm?
On Aug 28 2007 10:23, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>What's the upside of changing? What's the downside? The upside is so
>infinitesimal that that leaving "ether=" in indefinitely seems like a
>good move to me.
Then why did it change to netdev= in the first place...
Jan
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2007-08-28 18:43 H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2007-08-28 7:08 Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-28 16:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-28 17:03 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-28 17:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-28 17:58 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-28 18:51 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-08-29 14:35 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-08-29 14:28 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-28 18:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
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