From owner-cvs-all Sun May 9 15:58:29 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 901EA14EE2; Sun, 9 May 1999 15:58:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA14452; Mon, 10 May 1999 08:28:15 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA38561; Mon, 10 May 1999 08:28:15 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 08:28:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Peter Wemm Cc: Bill Paul , Poul-Henning Kamp , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC LINT Makefile.i386 files.i386 Message-ID: <19990510082815.J22791@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990509214212.2A41015168@hub.freebsd.org> <19990509222214.B069E1F73@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990509222214.B069E1F73@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 06:22:12AM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Monday, 10 May 1999 at 6:22:12 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Bill Paul wrote: >>> 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). > > Umm, would this do? > > makeoptions KERNEL=foo What advantage does this have over "config foo"? The obvious disadvantage is that it appears to be a gratuitous change. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message