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Date:      Thu, 05 Oct 2000 14:30:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001005143033.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001005133229.A99995@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On 05-Oct-00 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:23:21PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>> What about /boot/GENERIC/*.ko for people who boot the GENERIC one day.
> 
> I thought so too, but JKH and msmith said "no".  I'll make it do either
> given a directive from JKH.
> 
>> Also, any reason that you changed the name from kernel.GENERIC to
>> GENERIC?  
> 
> Because that is not the new naming scheme.  It is
> /boot/<KERNEL_NAME>/kernel.  (<KERNEL_NAME> is not necessarily the kernel
> config filename).

Who says KERNEL == ident? :)  Besides, having kernel.GENERIC lets you
at least know that it is a kernel so that if you do a ls of boot you
have a clear distinction of what are kernels, and what aren't.

>> If it is /boot/kernel.GENERIC/foo then one can still use
>> the same 'boot kernel.GENERIC' command that one used before to boot
>> the GENERIC kernel.
> 
> That is a valid point... and I can make it do that if JKH et al. thinks
> that is the way to go.
>  
> -- 
> -- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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