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

It changed to be more descriptive.  The old one is supported for backwards compatibility, just like we have sys_oldoldstat still.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:12
To: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>; Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: ok to kill "ether=" kernel parm?


On Aug 28 2007 10:23, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>What's the upside of changing?  What's the downside?  The upside is so
>infinitesimal that that leaving "ether=" in indefinitely seems like a
>good move to me.

Then why did it change to netdev= in the first place...



	Jan
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