From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:15:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:15:30 -0500 Received: from out001pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.140]:27127 "EHLO out001.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:15:29 -0500 Message-ID: <3DC9EA2A.142559AA@verizon.net> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 20:20:58 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: davem@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: ahu@ds9a.nl Subject: Re: Silly advise in bridge Configure help Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------BF09BD75E4373F9F2836F7EA" X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at out001.verizon.net from [4.64.197.173] at Wed, 6 Nov 2002 23:22:02 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------BF09BD75E4373F9F2836F7EA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ." | | 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 --------------BF09BD75E4373F9F2836F7EA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="bridge_help-2.5.46.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="bridge_help-2.5.46.patch" --- ./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 . - 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 . The module --------------BF09BD75E4373F9F2836F7EA--