* Stuart Longland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-14 09:29]: > I seem to recall a patch being applied to the upstream Linux/MIPS kernel > that forces mace to become "eth0". Have a look at gitweb on > <http://www.linux-mips.org/>, the patch will be somewhere on that site > ("MACE" should be a good keyword to try). In order to allow renaming, > this patch has to be reversed. > > The point of this patch is to facilitate netbooting, the logic was that > since the PROM can only talk to MACE for netbooting, the kernel should > ensure that eth0 is always MACE. Thus removing the need to swap > ethernet cables over.
I don't believe that's true. I remember a patch moving meth.o further up in the Makefile to help netbooting, but that patch got rejected: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06697.html -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
