Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

[Blu3Viper <david@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > If this is really true, 2.5.x is an appropriate time to make
> > this, no sooner.
> 
> I think it would be better to keep it. The ifa based alias interface 
> emulation adds minor overhead (currently it's only a few lines of code,
> assuming we need named if addresses for other reasons too, which we do) 
> and removing it it would break a lot of configuration scripts etc., for 
> no really good gain. 

How about turning it out with a legacy/deprecated CONFIG_ option so we can
prepare people. For now it can default to enabled.

-d