[syslinux] Three questions/feature requests

Joel Ebel jbebel at google.com
Wed Jul 16 14:59:50 PDT 2008


I have three questions.  If these are not currently possible, consider 
it a feature request:

1.  Is it possible to create label aliases, such that one label will 
simply use the configuration of another, without having to completely 
copy the configuration.  It would also be great if these aliases could 
cross INCLUDE boundaries, such that a label can call a label defined in 
an included file.

2.  Is there a way, outside of the menu system, that all available 
labels could be listed for a user?

3.  Is it possible to nest APPENDs such that many common labels could 
have a template APPEND, and then add custom appends for each label.  It 
would be especially cool if these could be nested on multiple levels, 
such that a label append could be appended to a sub-group append, which 
could be appended to a global append, etc.  At least it would be nice to 
have a separate global append per included file.  Right now if a file 
with labels included, and a second file with a global append is included 
second, the append that should be global in the second file is used only 
as an append for the last label in the previous file, overriding any 
label defined in the first included file.  This doesn't seem like ideal 
behavior.

Thanks,
Joel Ebel




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