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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Officially deprecate "ether=" in favour of
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:32:10 -0500 (EST)
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

... relevant patch snipped ...

> Why bother. I would removing it?

i tried that once, and a number of people promptly had kittens over
the thought of simply yanking a working kernel parameter without
giving everyone at least a year's notice.

rday

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