Re: [PATCH] ipconfig: send host-name in DHCP requests

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Jun 02 2010 - 10:05:26 EST


From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 11:19:53 +0800

> Normally dhclient can be configured to send the "host-name" option
> in DHCP requests to update the client's DNS record. However for an
> NFSROOT system, dhclient shall never be called (which may change the
> IP addr and therefore lose your root NFS mount connection).
>
> So enable updating the DNS record with kernel parameter
>
> ip=::::$HOST_NAME::dhcp
>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
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