From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kenneth Johansson Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] I2C and W1 bugfixes for 2.6.12-rc2 Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:04:59 +0200 Message-ID: <42658E9B.4030609@kenjo.org> References: <20050419043938.GA23724@kroah.com> <20050419185807.GA1191@kroah.com> <20050419194728.GA24367@kroah.com> <20050419214009.GA25681@kroah.com> <20050419222738.GA14566@nevyn.them.org> <20050419223303.GB25966@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 20 01:01:46 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DO1ii-0000ui-Hp for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:01:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261714AbVDSXFa (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:05:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261732AbVDSXFa (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:05:30 -0400 Received: from 1-1-4-20a.ras.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.72.90]:52706 "EHLO garbo.kenjo.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261714AbVDSXFH (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:05:07 -0400 Received: from power.kenjo.org ([192.168.1.6]) by garbo.kenjo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DO1m9-000887-2e; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:05:01 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git To: Greg KH In-Reply-To: <20050419223303.GB25966@kroah.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:27:38PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >>On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:00:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >>> >>>On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: >>> >>>>It looks like your domain name isn't set up properly for your box (which >>>>is why it worked for you, but not me before, causing that patch). >>> >>>No, I think it's a bug in your domainname changes. I don't think you >>>should do the domainname at all if the hostname has a dot in it. >>> >>>Most machines I have access to (and that includes machines that are >>>professionally maintained, not just my own cruddy setup) says "(none)" to >>>domainname and have the full hostname in hostname. >>> >>>And even the ones that use domainname tend to not have a fully qualified >>>DNS domain there. You need to use dnsdomainname to get that, and I don't >>>even know how to do it with standard libc. >>> >>>So how about something like this? >>> >>>(Somebody who actually knows how these things should be done - please feel >>>free to pipe up). >> >>The glibc documentation blows for this, but what getdomainname comes >>from uname(2), not from any DNS-related configuration. Debian only >>ever sets this if you're using NIS. > > > Well, somehow Gentoo sets this up properly, and I'm not using NIS. Hm, > my SuSE boxes on the other hand... I have to agree with Daniel on this one. The domainname is related to nis and can be whatever you want it has nothing to do with DNS domains. Similar to a realm in kerberos This is how it's used both on debian and solaris(don't use much else) and is consistent with Linus claim that it's common to have none.