On 06/08/2016 03:35 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > On 6/8/16, 15:41, "Rob Landley" <r...@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
