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

[Rob Landley]

On 06/08/2016 03:35 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
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> On 6/8/16, 15:41, "Rob Landley" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>So addr= is at _best_ redundant. You MUST supply host:/ always,
>>the current code just wasn't using it.
> 
> Thatâs 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 âaddr=â has been a mandatory
> parameter ever since we introduced the text based parser.

Then why is host: mandatory in the dev name?

Rob