From 9f0c9be19a6324b161a699b68fadb4ea2349edc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:16:58 -0400
Subject: note that ETHTOOL_OPTS really should be done as udev rules

---
 sysconfig.txt | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sysconfig.txt b/sysconfig.txt
index 0be8a84c..825db894 100644
--- a/sysconfig.txt
+++ b/sysconfig.txt
@@ -672,12 +672,6 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
     Managed from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ipx
     ARP=yes|no (adds 'arp' flag to ifconfig, for use with the
       ethertap device)
-    ETHTOOL_OPTS=...
-      Any device-specific options supported by ethtool. For example,
-      if you wanted to force 100Mb full duplex:
-        ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 100 duplex full autoneg off"
-      Note that changing speed or duplex settings almost always
-      requires disabling autonegotiation with 'autoneg off'.
     LINKDELAY=<time in seconds>
       Time that the system should pause after the specific interface is
       enabled.  This may be useful if one interface is connected to a
@@ -687,6 +681,16 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
       If set, the ethernet device is not assigned an address.  It is added to
       the specified bridge device instead.
 
+   Deprecated, but supported:
+    ETHTOOL_OPTS=...
+      Any device-specific options supported by ethtool. For example,
+      if you wanted to force 100Mb full duplex:
+        ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 100 duplex full autoneg off"
+      Note that changing speed or duplex settings almost always
+      requires disabling autonegotiation with 'autoneg off'.
+
+      Long term, this should be done by sysadmin-written udev rules.
+
     No longer supported:
      PROMISC=yes|no (enable or disable promiscuous mode)
      ALLMULTI=yes|no (enable or disable all-multicast mode)
-- 
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