From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 14 6:23:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4349837B41D for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 06:23:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g0EEMWK39291; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:22:32 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:22:32 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Robin P. Blanchard" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel ident behaviour change? Message-ID: <20020114162232.C21333@sunbay.com> References: <3C42E804.A707CDF0@gactr.uga.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C42E804.A707CDF0@gactr.uga.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:15:32AM -0500, Robin P. Blanchard wrote: > Seems that the kernel ident behaviour has changed for 4.5...I used to > name my kernels based on the dell model number (2450, 4350, 1550, 2550, > etc). With 4.5, though, it seems the ident can no longer be strictly > numeric (had to change them to "uni-2450" > etc). Not a big deal, really. Is there a reason for the change, though? > The reason is a sticter syntax checking by config(8) -- ident's parameter is of type STRING, so you should enclose it into double quotes if it's all digits. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message