[Buildroot] What's up with the kernel names? (Again)

[Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson@atmel.com>]

>
> Hi,
>
> Ulf> Just for fun, I checked my OpenSuSE /boot directory
>
> Ulf> Guess what I found:
>
> Ulf> "vmlinuz" which happens to be a LINK to
>
> Ulf> ??vmlinuz-$(KERNEL_VERSION)-$(REV)-$PROJECT)
> Ulf> ?
> Ulf> There was also a:
> Ulf> vmlinux-$(KERNEL_VERSION)-$(REV)-$PROJECT).gz file
>
> Ulf> Looks like the guys doing OpenSuSE are as "odd" as I am.
>
> And guess what the kernel outputs? A simple arch/x86/boot/bzImage, as
> platform/distribution specific naming convention doesn't belong in the
> mainline kernel.
>

No but it belongs in the distribution created by buildroot.
Try making a remote upgrade when the old kernel and the new kernel has the 
same name.

Your argument smells of
"we have always done it in a certain way, and therefore we should always do 
it in the same way".
There are some reasons why you may want to have a simple name,
and all these reasons are covered by generating a symlink.

It is a good idea to make things as simple as possible, you are trying to 
make things simpler than that.

Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson