From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756205AbXH1RPN (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:15:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751391AbXH1RPB (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:15:01 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:34281 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750965AbXH1RPA (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:15:00 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.27 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:03:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: "H. Peter Anvin" cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: ok to kill "ether=" kernel parm? In-Reply-To: <46D45111.2040600@zytor.com> Message-ID: References: <46D45111.2040600@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, timed out) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > given that "ether=" has been officially obsolete since 2.6.18 > > (replaced by "netdev="), is there any reason to keep it around? > > or can it be blasted? > > That sounds like way too short of a timeline for breaking people's > working boot setup. For a lot of people, 2.6.18->current is going > to be a single step. actually, now that i look more closely at the code browser at lxr.linux.no, "ether=" has been listed as "obsolete" since *at least* 2.6.10. not to sound unsympathetic but anyone who tries to jump from 2.6.10 to 2.6.24 in one step deserves what they get. :-) ok, that was cruel, but you see my point, right? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================