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

[H. Peter Anvin]

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 <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:12
To: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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