[Nix-dev] Hi nix developers!

[Marc Weber]

> This scheme should progressively be removed by removing each element
> contained inside the default value of kernelParams.  When the default
> value will be an empty list, then the extraKernelParams will be a
> useless extension which should be made obsolete before being removed.
> Making it obsolete should be useful to warn everybody to replace each
> reference of extraKernelParams by kernelParams.
> 
> The defaultKernelParams does not give any advantage compare to the
> current scheme except that this awful syntax can be removed faster
> from user view which are not overriding the default settings.

It's more verbose but I prefer it for exactly the reasons you've
mentioned. Go for it. I'll convert to that style when working on things
as well.

Sincerly
Marc Weber