On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 08 June 2011 15:45:21 Tom Gundersen wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl> wrote:
If you want this, implement it! I have seen some discussions about it and it always tend to users wanting feature X or Y, but didn't commit to it. protip: iirc there are some threads about this on the mailing list, the forums and the bugtracker, start gathering info there.
Implementing this should be almost trivial, it's just a patch to kernel26.install. I think if someone wants to see this feature, the best way would be to post a patch to arch-projects@archlinux.org.
That's true; I'll try to find some time to do this in the next week or so, if someone doesn't beat me to it.
I was just expecting to contribute to the discussion regarding the best way to deal with kernel upgrades, but if you think this patch would be accepted, I'd be happy to provide it.
Cool! I'd be in favor of the patch, but I don't know if it will be accepted (I'm not the maintainer). At least you'll get the attention of the right people :)
-t
Such a patch would also have to copy the modules (which aren't under kernel26's 'purview'). For example, nvidia gets upgraded on a major version kernel update, the old kernel which has been renamed doesn't 'work' graphically anymore.