Re: ok to kill "ether=" kernel parm?

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.

	-hpa

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