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

[Ingo Molnar]

* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 May 2011, Theodore Tso wrote:
> 
> > OK, so to clarify, what you want is for ARCH=xxx to always override
> > whatever is in .config?  Are we all on the same page here?  I thought
> > David was arguing that what was in .config should always be more
> > important, since he regards "ARCH=xxxx" as "legacy".
> 
> I am saying that we should not have that redundancy at all. ATM we *only* 
> have it for CONFIG_64BIT and *only* on x86, not others like ppc/sh/sparc 
> etc.

Even if we were ready to remove a feature that is 'only' available on 
90%+ of development systems that kernel developers use today, we 
probably couldn't do it due to the upstream kernel regression policy 
anyway. Especially when there is no functionally equivalent 
replacement.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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