In 2.5 we should clean up device configuration overall. Make sane the
ether=XXX crap. I do not think modern PCI net drivers need ether=XXX at
all other than for a non-default interface name ("eth4" instead of
"eth0"), for example.
If we decided to handle this on a per-net-driver basis using __setup(),
that would allow us to simply kill the ether=XXX code completely [get it
out of the core rather]. Helper functions called from net driver's
__setup routine would instead be where the common code would exist [in a
smaller form].
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