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Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:34:43 -0600
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: Use aliases instead of linux,network-index on Ebony
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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