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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uts: Make default hostname configurable, rather than
 always using "(none)"
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 12:46:30 -0700 (PDT)
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=46rom: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 20:35:37 +0900

> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org=
> wrote:
>>
>> The "hostname" tool falls back to setting the hostname to "localhost=
" if
>> /etc/hostname does not exist. =A0Distribution init scripts have the =
same
>> fallback. =A0However, if userspace never calls sethostname, such as =
when
>> booting with init=3D/bin/sh, or otherwise booting a minimal system w=
ithout
>> the usual init scripts, the default hostname of "(none)" remains,
>> unhelpfully appearing in various places such as prompts
>> ("root@(none):~#") and logs. =A0Furthermore, "(none)" doesn't typica=
lly
>> resolve to anything useful.
>=20
> Ok, I'm fine with this. So Ack as far as I'm concerned.
>=20
> Does this make most sense through the networking tree, or what?

Linus, you can just apply this directly.

Thanks!