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In-Reply-To: <21969.926281972@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "May 9, 1999 10:32:52 pm"
To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 14:42:12 -0700 (PDT)
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	jb@cimlogic.com.au
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From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul)
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> In message <199905092039.GAA15011@cimlogic.com.au>, John Birrell writes:
> >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >>   Major lobotomy of config(8).  The
> >>   
> >>           config kernel mumble mumble
> >>   
> >>   line has been obsoleted and removed and with it went all knowledge of
> >>   devices on the part of config.
> >
> >Does this change mean that it is no longer possible to choose the name
> >of the "kernel"? I was using this "feature" for embedded kernels that
> >get loaded into flash on boards. These embedded kernels aren't general,
> >so I thought they deserved to have board-specific names.
> 
> Uhm, sorry, didn't think anybody used that feature (considering how
> many places "kernel" was already hardcoded).

Well now you know. Please put it back (not all of it, just the ability
to say "config foo" to specify the name of the kernel image).

As for "kernel" being hardcoded, it should not be. Anything that needs
to know the name of the currently running kernel image should be getting
it from the kern.bootfile sysctl variable. Harcoding "kernel" is generally
a bug. (savecore(8) is one example.) It's certainly a bug here.

I name all my kernels "vmunix". Anyone who does something that breaks
my ability to do that will have to face me and *my* axe.

-Bill


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