Re: [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig'

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon May 30 2011 - 05:15:47 EST



* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 09:23 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > You thoroughly misunderstood my prior regression report, the problem
> > with your patch was that your patch actually *broke* existing
> > filtered-randconfig behavior, for example trying to get a 64-bit
> > randconfig:
> >
> > make ARCH=x86_64 randconfig
> >
> > ... will today produce a 64-bit randconfig while with your old change
> > applied it produced a 32-bit randconfig 50% of the time.
>
> I believe that this 'filtered randconfig' behaviour is now fairly much
> the *only* use for the old 'ARCH=i386' and 'ARCH=x86_64'.

I use "make ARCH=i386 defconfig" and "make ARCH=x86_64 defconfig" all
the time.

Thanks,

Ingo
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