On Wednesday, 03/09/2011 at 05:40 EST, Mark Post <mp...@novell.com> wrote: > >>> On 3/9/2011 at 12:17 PM, Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > >> Try QETH_PORTNO. > > > > Mark, where is this mechanism documented? The Device Driver book (even > > for SLES 11) does not refer to such. > > It's not that I know of. Since this is a parm that was only used in SLES10, it > wouldn't be in the distribution-specific Device Drivers and Commands books, > which started with SLES11.
Strange. Then what would be the equivalent for SLES 11? Doesn't changing it create a compatibility/upgrade problem? > I think this is a case of "If you're technical enough to not use YaST and > instead edit hardware configuration files directly, you should be able to look > at the skeleton config files and startup scripts to figure it out." I don't > think we've ever documented every last thing that can be put into those files, > but I could be wrong. I just find it strange the SOME of the parms are documented, but not all. Red Hat has the same issue. Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
