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) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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