From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, apw@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch] ipv4: Update ip command line processing (take II)
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:04:37 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071226050435.GA18934@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071225.205543.240106823.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 08:55:43PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:59:05 +0900
>
> > Recently the documentation in Documentation/nfsroot.txt was
> > update to note that in fact ip=off and ip=::::::off as the
> > latter is ignored and the default (on) is used.
> >
> > This was certainly a step in the direction of reducing confusion.
> > But it seems to me that the code ought to be fixed up so that
> > ip=::::::off actually turns off ip autoconfiguration.
> >
> > This patch also notes more specifically that ip=on (aka ip=::::::on)
> > is the default.
> >
> > Cc: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
>
> I applied this to net-2.6 since I think it's a bug fix, and
> I also tailored the changelog header to more it clear this
> is a fix not just an "Update". :-)
Ok, thanks.
--
Horms
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-26 5:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-26 2:59 [patch] ipv4: Update ip command line processing (take II) Simon Horman
2007-12-26 2:59 ` Simon Horman
2007-12-26 4:55 ` David Miller
2007-12-26 5:04 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2008-01-06 3:58 ` [PATCH] Fix regression in ip command line processing Amos Waterland
2008-01-06 7:20 ` David Miller
2008-01-06 9:25 ` Simon Horman
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