Re: [PATCH] Fix NFS option parsing bit-rot.

From	Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] Fix NFS option parsing bit-rot.
Date	2016-06-09 00:00 +0200
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On 06/08/2016 03:35 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/8/16, 15:41, "Rob Landley" <rob@landley.net> wrote:
>>So addr= is at _best_ redundant. You MUST supply host:/ always,
>>the current code just wasn't using it.
> 
> That’s because you just happen to be supplying an IP address instead of
> a hostname. The kernel has no DNS resolving functionality. It cannot
> resolve hostnames into IP addresses without help either by the caller or
> by means of an upcall. That is why ‘addr=’ has been a mandatory
> parameter ever since we introduced the text based parser.

Then why is host: mandatory in the dev name?

Rob

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[PATCH] Fix NFS option parsing bit-rot. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> - 2016-06-07 01:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] Fix NFS option parsing bit-rot. Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com> - 2016-06-07 02:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Fix NFS option parsing bit-rot. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> - 2016-06-08 21:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] Fix NFS option parsing bit-rot. Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com> - 2016-06-08 22:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] Fix NFS option parsing bit-rot. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> - 2016-06-09 00:00 +0200

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