Matthew Dillon schrieb:
The problem I have is that having three different directives is, well, it is rather confusing. I want to simplify it even more.I have an idea. Please tell me if this is way off base. Why don't we just create a postfix out of the kernel name by default? So if you 'make installkernel KERNCONF=BLAH' you will get a /boot/kernel.BLAH and /boot/modules.BLAH ? So, for example, a GENERIC kernel would be installed as /boot/kernel.GENERIC and /boot/modules.GENERIC. We would then have a loader variable which defaults to 'GENERIC' in loader.conf, telling the loader which kernel to boot. How does that sound?
At a first thought it doesn't sound bad although I think it should still provide a way to install a kernel under a different name without having to change the kernel config's name.
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