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* Silly advise in bridge Configure help
@ 2002-10-28 13:35 bert hubert
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From: bert hubert @ 2002-10-28 13:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: buytenh, linux-kernel

In the Configure HELP of Ethernet bridging:

"Note that if your box acts as a bridge, it probably contains several
 Ethernet devices, but the kernel is not able to recognize more than one at
 boot time without help; for details read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
 in <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>."

This is extremely bogus these days and prone to confuse people. I suggest
this warning is removed.

Kind regards,

bert hubert

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* Re: Silly advise in bridge Configure help
@ 2002-11-07  4:20 Randy.Dunlap
  2002-11-07  9:15 ` David S. Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Randy.Dunlap @ 2002-11-07  4:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem, linux-kernel; +Cc: ahu

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Bert Hubert said a few days back:
| In the Configure HELP of Ethernet bridging:
|
| "Note that if your box acts as a bridge, it probably contains 
| several Ethernet devices, but the kernel is not able to recognize
| more than one at
| boot time without help; for details read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 
| available from in <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>."
|
| This is extremely bogus these days and prone to confuse people. 
| I suggest this warning is removed.

Sounds good, so here's the patch to 2.5.46 Kconfig to do that
if you want it.

~Randy

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--- ./net/Kconfig%fixhelp	Mon Nov  4 14:30:05 2002
+++ ./net/Kconfig	Wed Nov  6 20:07:13 2002
@@ -382,11 +382,6 @@
 	  for location. Please read the Bridge mini-HOWTO for more
 	  information.
 
-	  Note that if your box acts as a bridge, it probably contains several
-	  Ethernet devices, but the kernel is not able to recognize more than
-	  one at boot time without help; for details read the Ethernet-HOWTO,
-	  available from in <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>.
-
 	  If you want to compile this code as a module ( = code which can be
 	  inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
 	  say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>.  The module

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