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

[Andi Kleen]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:05:31AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

Small nit: Fengguang, please document the new option in 
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt That could be done in a follow-on patch.

-Andi
> 

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