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ipconfig: send host-name in DHCP requests
authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Sun, 30 May 2010 17:19:53 +0000 (17:19 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 2 Jun 2010 14:05:03 +0000 (07:05 -0700)
commite31bfb1edf1493ef4f9d32bb4b12015efa8d7e3c
tree38ab94d926bf68fc2dd5cb8941777574bcb26a11
parent0a4eb59ce783658f06cb9a364ef8de4c8191e2c0
ipconfig: send host-name in DHCP requests

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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv4/ipconfig.c