From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Snook Subject: Re: Suggested patch: Sending the FQDN when booting via DHCP Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:16:37 -0400 Message-ID: <48C73C15.2000103@redhat.com> References: <48C6B3DA.3040904@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Thierry Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:43003 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751949AbYIJDSJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 23:18:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48C6B3DA.3040904@wanadoo.fr> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thierry wrote: > [re-sent without HTML encoding, and to the right aliases ...] > > Hi all, > > the following patch can be useful, in order to let the DHCP server > accordingly update the DNS, when booting via DHCP. > > This can be useful for 2 reasons: > 1) on small systems, the embedded filesystem may even not have udhcpd > 2) when booting nfsroot, the nfs server does not like when udhcpd in > invoked, even when requested the same IP address. > > Here is the patch, for 2.6.27-rc5. (Notice that it is the very first > time I deliver a patch for Linux, and I may > have missed some points on the procedure, if it is the case I apologize > for that). What do you think about it ? > > Any ideas or comments are welcome. This should probably be a kernel command-line option, rather than a static config option. -- Chris