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

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

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
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