linux/init
Josh Triplett bd5dc17be8 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>
2011-06-15 20:04:00 -07:00
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calibrate.c init/calibrate.c: fix for critical bogoMIPS intermittent calculation failure 2011-05-25 08:39:46 -07:00
do_mounts_initrd.c Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
do_mounts_md.c init: mark __user address space on string literals 2010-10-26 16:52:15 -07:00
do_mounts_rd.c init: return proper error code in do_mounts_rd() 2011-03-22 17:44:15 -07:00
do_mounts.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
do_mounts.h md: move lots of #include lines out of .h files and into .c 2009-03-31 14:33:13 +11:00
initramfs.c Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 2010-10-28 15:13:55 -07:00
Kconfig uts: make default hostname configurable, rather than always using "(none)" 2011-06-15 20:04:00 -07:00
main.c mm: Fix boot crash in mm_alloc() 2011-05-29 11:32:28 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated 2009-12-12 13:08:14 +01:00
noinitramfs.c init: mark __user address space on string literals 2010-10-26 16:52:15 -07:00
version.c userns: add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace 2011-03-23 19:46:59 -07:00