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authorJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>2011-06-15 15:08:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-06-15 20:04:00 -0700
commitbd5dc17be87b3a3073d50b23802647db3ae3fa8e (patch)
treeb8abfc57e4282d943bb2bb21762a868efa29bd20
parentca39599c633fb02aceac31a7e67563612e4fe347 (diff)
uts: make default hostname configurable, rather than always using "(none)"
The "hostname" tool falls back to setting the hostname to "localhost" if /etc/hostname does not exist. Distribution init scripts have the same fallback. However, if userspace never calls sethostname, such as when booting with init=/bin/sh, or otherwise booting a minimal system without the usual init scripts, the default hostname of "(none)" remains, unhelpfully appearing in various places such as prompts ("root@(none):~#") and logs. Furthermore, "(none)" doesn't typically resolve to anything useful. Make the default hostname configurable. This removes the need for the standard fallback, provides a useful default for systems that never call sethostname, and makes minimal systems that much more useful with less configuration. Distributions could choose to use "localhost" here to avoid the fallback, while embedded systems may wish to use a specific target hostname. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/uts.h2
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig9
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/uts.h b/include/linux/uts.h
index 73eb1ed36ec4..6ddbd86377de 100644
--- a/include/linux/uts.h
+++ b/include/linux/uts.h
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
#endif
#ifndef UTS_NODENAME
-#define UTS_NODENAME "(none)" /* set by sethostname() */
+#define UTS_NODENAME CONFIG_DEFAULT_HOSTNAME /* set by sethostname() */
#endif
#ifndef UTS_DOMAINNAME
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index ebafac4231ee..e0a22e42d39a 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -204,6 +204,15 @@ config KERNEL_LZO
endchoice
+config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME
+ string "Default hostname"
+ default "(none)"
+ help
+ This option determines the default system hostname before userspace
+ calls sethostname(2). The kernel traditionally uses "(none)" here,
+ but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal
+ system more usable with less configuration.
+
config SWAP
bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
depends on MMU && BLOCK