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Commit 660de409 authored by Chris Novakovic's avatar Chris Novakovic Committed by David S. Miller
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ipconfig: Document setting of NIS domain name



ic_do_bootp_ext() is responsible for parsing the "ip=" and "nfsaddrs="
kernel parameters. If a "." character is found in parameter 4 (the
client's hostname), everything before the first "." is used as the
hostname, and everything after it is used as the NIS domain name (but
not necessarily the DNS domain name).

Document this behaviour in Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt,
as it is not made explicit.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Novakovic <chris@chrisn.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 5cb5ce33
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