Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 2010 20:56:01 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ipconfig: send host-name in DHCP requests |
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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 >
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