linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipconfig: send host-name in DHCP requests

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Date:	Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:05:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fengguang.wu@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	andi@...stfloor.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipconfig: send host-name in DHCP requests

From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.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@...el.com>

Applied, thanks.
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