From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: Use aliases instead of linux,network-index on Ebony
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:34:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080224223443.6f84d073@zod.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080225003339.GB16071@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:33:39 +1100
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> This patch alters the Ebony bootwrapper to use the new preferred
> method of using aliases to work out which MAC address to attach to
> which ethernet device node, rather than the old method based on the
> linux,network-index property.
I like it. But do we have this new preferred method documented
somewhere? Doesn't seem to be in booting-without-of.txt. It probably
should be added there, and reference to the linux,network-index
property removed if this is really preferred now. Can you add
something to this patch for that?
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 4:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-25 0:33 Use aliases instead of linux,network-index on Ebony David Gibson
2008-02-25 4:34 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2008-02-25 6:49 ` David Gibson
2008-02-25 11:56 ` Josh Boyer
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