Re: [PATCH] x86/Kconfig: Fix allnoconfig without explicitly specified ARCH

[Ingo Molnar]

* Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 19:23 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 05:33:03PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > > Well, "when building on 32 bits" it currently suffices to do:
> > >     make allnoconfig
> > > 
> > > and the patch changes that.
> > 
> > Hmm, so this would need more staring. The fact that 64-bit needs to set
> > CONFIG_64BIT, we would need a way to say:
> > 
> > 	option allnoconfig_y if ARCH = "x86"
> > 
> > And Kconfig doesn't support that yet...
> 
> The fact that "make allnoconfig" and "make allyesconfig" can give you
> a .config for another subarchitecture is annoying. [...]

Absolutely! No 'make *config' option should change the current 
.config's architecture, except if ARCH= is specified on the command 
line.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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