From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 5 14:30:35 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20D1B37B502; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp248.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.248]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e95LULi15455; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:30:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001005133229.A99995@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 14:30:33 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. ( 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 -- 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