From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 20:35:37 +0900

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Josh Triplett [off-list ref] wrote:

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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.

Ok, I'm fine with this. So Ack as far as I'm concerned.

Does this make most sense through the networking tree, or what?

Linus, you can just apply this directly.

Thanks!