Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2008-02-25

Re: Use aliases instead of linux,network-index on Ebony

From: Josh Boyer <hidden>
Date: 2008-02-25 04:35:39

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:33:39 +1100
David Gibson [off-list ref] 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
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