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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipconfig: send host-name in DHCP requests
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:05:31 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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@intel.com>

Applied, thanks.