From 031c99d6d1fd44bf6cc28395867b8adf432b9115 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 01:38:49 -0400
Subject: mkinitcpio: allow specifying kernel ver as path to image

update the example.preset to show this syntax as an alternative

Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com>
---
 mkinitcpio                  | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 mkinitcpio.d/example.preset |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mkinitcpio b/mkinitcpio
index 897ce1d..8cf8859 100755
--- a/mkinitcpio
+++ b/mkinitcpio
@@ -80,6 +80,25 @@ sighandler() {
     exit 1
 }
 
+get_kernver() {
+    local kernel=$1
+
+    if [[ "${kernel:0:1}" != / ]]; then
+        echo $kernel
+        return 0
+    fi
+
+    [[ -r "$kernel" ]] || return 1
+
+    read _ kernver < <(file -b "$BASEDIR$kernel" | grep -o 'version [^ ]\+')
+    if [[ "$kernver" && -e "$BASEDIR/lib/modules/$kernver" ]]; then
+        echo "$kernver"
+        return 0
+    fi
+
+    return 1
+}
+
 trap sighandler TERM INT
 
 while getopts ':c:k:sb:g:p:m:vH:LMhS:' arg; do
@@ -90,7 +109,7 @@ while getopts ':c:k:sb:g:p:m:vH:LMhS:' arg; do
     fi
     case "${arg}" in
         c) CONFIG="${OPTARG}" ;;
-        k) KERNELVERSION="${OPTARG}" ;;
+        k) optkver=$OPTARG ;;
         s) SAVELIST="y"; ;;
         b) BASEDIR="${OPTARG}" ;;
         g) GENIMG="${OPTARG}" ;;
@@ -122,6 +141,14 @@ while getopts ':c:k:sb:g:p:m:vH:LMhS:' arg; do
 done
 shift $((${OPTIND} - 1))
 
+if [[ $optkver ]]; then
+    if ! KERNELVERSION=$(get_kernver "$optkver"); then
+         echo "error: '$optkver' is an invalid kernel specifier"
+         cleanup
+         exit 1
+    fi
+fi
+
 # use preset $PRESET
 if [ -n "${PRESET}" ]; then
     if [ -f "${PRESETDIR}/${PRESET}.preset" ]; then
diff --git a/mkinitcpio.d/example.preset b/mkinitcpio.d/example.preset
index 3fb32f1..93a8f92 100644
--- a/mkinitcpio.d/example.preset
+++ b/mkinitcpio.d/example.preset
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ PRESETS=('default' 'fallback')
 # note for distribution kernels: this should be in a separate file
 # and read like this:
 # . /etc/mkinitcpio.d/exmaple.kver
-ALL_kver='2.6.24-ARCH'
+ALL_kver='/boot/vmlinuz26'
 ALL_config='/etc/mkinitcpio.conf'
 
 # presetname_kver    - the kernel version (omit if ALL_kver should be used)
-- 
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