From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756203AbXH2OjM (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:39:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752525AbXH2Oi7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:38:59 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:39669 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751936AbXH2Oi6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:38:58 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.27 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:28:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Denys Vlasenko cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: ok to kill "ether=" kernel parm? In-Reply-To: <200708291535.41594.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Message-ID: References: <46D45A02.6010306@zytor.com> <200708291535.41594.vda.linux@googlemail.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, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00) 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 Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > Add a printk("Deprecated, use netdev=xxx\n"); to the handler. > After 1-2 years you can remove ether=xxx. actually, i was just about to do that, along the lines of what was done with "time" -> "printk.time". coming soonish. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================