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authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2010-06-02 16:02:44 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-06-03 03:18:18 -0700
commit8cbccbe76168a0c627d2274e4a322116804db30f (patch)
tree7ad89d1260643ef23bcee47dc3fd9fc576edac55 /Documentation/filesystems/nfs
parent0dea7c12fc2c15de8b2104a322a1f47919d753fd (diff)
downloadlinux-8cbccbe76168a0c627d2274e4a322116804db30f.tar.gz
ipconfig: document DHCP hostname and DNS record
Now it's possible to update the DNS record for $HOST_NAME with

	ip=::::$HOST_NAME::dhcp

CC: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt2
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt
index 3ba0b945aaf8..f2430a7974e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>
 
   <hostname>	Name of the client. May be supplied by autoconfiguration,
   		but its absence will not trigger autoconfiguration.
+		If specified and DHCP is used, the user provided hostname will
+		be carried in the DHCP request to hopefully update DNS record.
 
   		Default: Client IP address is used in ASCII notation.