From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933046Ab2IUSvt (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:51:49 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:51674 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757543Ab2IUSvr (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:51:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:51:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20120921.145144.14955032475453606.davem@davemloft.net> To: chf.fritz@googlemail.com Cc: rob@landley.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, j.weitzel@phytec.de, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, hjk@hansjkoch.de, daniel@zonque.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ipconfig: add nameserver IPs to kernel-parameter ip= From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1348252279.12456.2.camel@mars> References: <1348177730.3858.98.camel@mars> <20120921.133759.1667263015470766968.davem@davemloft.net> <1348252279.12456.2.camel@mars> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Christoph Fritz Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:31:19 +0200 > On small systems (e.g. embedded ones) IP addresses are often configured > by bootloaders and get assigned to kernel via parameter "ip=". If set to > "ip=dhcp", even nameserver entries from DHCP daemons are handled. These > entries exported in /proc/net/pnp are commonly linked by /etc/resolv.conf. > > To configure nameservers for networks without DHCP, this patch adds option > and to kernel-parameter 'ip='. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Fritz > Tested-by: Jan Weitzel Applied to net-next, thanks.