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

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Mon May 30 2011 - 07:12:47 EST


On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 13:04 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> That v2 changelog still seems to have an attitude though about the
> ARCH=i386 and ARCH=x86_64 modifiers (thoroughly debunked both by
> myself and others), so mind sending a v3 one which correctly and
> fairly describes the situation? (or ack my variant which ought to be
> pretty close)

SIGWENCH; have to run. Back later. Can we make it something like

"This version preserves the legacy ARCH=i386/ARCH=x86_64 behaviour for
randconfig/oldconfig/all*config, although I believe that this *ought* to
be removed in the future, in favour of a generic method of overriding
config options â one that doesn't work *only* for one particular config
setting (CONFIG_64BIT), and *only* on one architecture (there's no
equivalent for mips/powerpc/s390/parisc/sparc to flip CONFIG_64BIT for
you)."

It's less of an 'attitude' but I think it clearly states the situation?

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dwmw2

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