From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: horms@verge.net.au
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: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:55:43 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071225.205543.240106823.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071226025903.GB14422@verge.net.au>
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". :-)
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-26 4:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ 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 4:55 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-12-26 5:04 ` Simon Horman
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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