Re: [PATCH -mm 4/9] netconsole: Introduce netconsole_netdev_notifier

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:37:59PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> From: Satyam Sharma <[email protected]>
> 
> [4/9] netconsole: Introduce netconsole_netdev_notifier
> 
> To update fields of underlying netpoll structure at runtime on
> corresponding NETDEV_CHANGEADDR or NETDEV_CHANGENAME notifications.

It's not obvious that we want to do that.

I can have a host with DHCP that uses netconsole to log to a private
network address. This breaks that.

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