From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: fengguang.wu@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andi@firstfloor.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipconfig: send host-name in DHCP requests
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 20:56:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100602185601.GB14221@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100602.070531.73368509.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:05:31AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 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.
Small nit: Fengguang, please document the new option in
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt That could be done in a follow-on patch.
-Andi
>
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-02 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-31 3:19 [PATCH] ipconfig: send host-name in DHCP requests Wu Fengguang
2010-06-02 14:05 ` David Miller
2010-06-02 18:56 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-06-03 2:02 ` [PATCH] ipconfig: document DHCP hostname and DNS record Wu Fengguang
2010-06-03 10:20 ` David Miller
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