From 1041fb01e5bab42cac9e8e42367cd67ae4d47b66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: K900 <me@0upti.me>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:38:11 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] bootspec: honor boot.kernel.enable

WSL and other container-brained-but-not-really systems may not want a kernel,
and now that bootspec is no longer optional, this pulls one in anyway.

(cherry picked from commit 1fdf8fd586508bc91d6d815fc8900695348f2902)
---
 nixos/modules/system/activation/bootspec.nix | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/nixos/modules/system/activation/bootspec.nix b/nixos/modules/system/activation/bootspec.nix
index c625b91ec1e2..e1253d2fea64 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/system/activation/bootspec.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/system/activation/bootspec.nix
@@ -26,9 +26,11 @@ let
             // {
               "org.nixos.bootspec.v1" = {
                 system = config.boot.kernelPackages.stdenv.hostPlatform.system;
+                label = "${config.system.nixos.distroName} ${config.system.nixos.codeName} ${config.system.nixos.label} (Linux ${config.boot.kernelPackages.kernel.modDirVersion})";
+              }
+              // lib.optionalAttrs config.boot.kernel.enable {
                 kernel = "${config.boot.kernelPackages.kernel}/${config.system.boot.loader.kernelFile}";
                 kernelParams = config.boot.kernelParams;
-                label = "${config.system.nixos.distroName} ${config.system.nixos.codeName} ${config.system.nixos.label} (Linux ${config.boot.kernelPackages.kernel.modDirVersion})";
               }
               // lib.optionalAttrs config.boot.initrd.enable {
                 initrd = "${config.system.build.initialRamdisk}/${config.system.boot.loader.initrdFile}";