Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030323AbWEYSlP (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 14:41:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030325AbWEYSlP (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 14:41:15 -0400 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:3515 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030323AbWEYSlP (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 14:41:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 20:40:59 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Linus Torvalds cc: Kyle McMartin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add compile domain (was: Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi...) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20060525141714.GA31604@skunkworks.cabal.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1239 Lines: 47 >> As for extending the linux_banner, here's a real patch in my line... > >No, this sucks. > Read the subject (still contains Lordi) , so take this ("real") with a grain of salt. >Sane configurations already have the FQDN as the hostname. It's quite >common to have "hostname" be the full name, and domainname be "(none)" >(with dnsdomainname being the domain name). > >I think your patch would make it say > > torvalds@g5.osdl.org.osdl.org > >for me. > # cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.17-rc4 (jengelh@shanghai) (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)) #1 Sat May 20 00:06:16 CEST 2006 # hostname shanghai # hostname --fqdn shanghai.hopto.org # dnsdomainname hopto.org If the FQDN was already in the kernel, I would not have submitted this. Frankly, the only that that I have not done was compile test it :) >So just fix your hostname to give the full hostname. Nothing less makes >any sense anyway. > Oh in that case you just found a bug in suse linux. > Linus > Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/