netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ipconfig: send Client-identifier in DHCP requests

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Date:	Sun, 18 Oct 2015 19:24:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	roy.qing.li@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ipconfig: send Client-identifier in DHCP
 requests

From: roy.qing.li@...il.com
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:54:36 +0800

> From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>
> 
> A dhcp server may provide parameters to a client from a pool of IP
> addresses and using a shared rootfs, or provide a specific set of
> parameters for a specific client, usually using the MAC address to
> identify each client individually. The dhcp protocol also specifies
> a client-id field which can be used to determine the correct
> parameters to supply when no MAC address is available. There is
> currently no way to tell the kernel to supply a specific client-id,
> only the userspace dhcp clients support this feature, but this can
> not be used when the network is needed before userspace is available
> such as when the root filesystem is on NFS.
> 
> This patch is to be able to do something like "ip=dhcp,client_id_type,
> client_id_value", as a kernel parameter to enable the kernel to
> identify itself to the server.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>

Looks good, applied, thanks.
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