Re: [PATCH 03/15] x86/kconfig: Rename x86_64_defconfig to defconfig.x86_64 and i386_defconfig to defconfig.i386

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, May 6, 2025, at 19:09, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Editing the defconfigs with shell filename completion is unnecessarily
> hard due to bad naming: if one remembers 'arch/x86/config/defconfig',
> it won't lead to the right files, because the defconfigs are
> prefixed with $(ARCH)_.
>
> Under the principle of 'higher order names should go first', prefix
> them with 'defconfig' and postfix them with .$(ARCH), and thus make
> all x86 configs match the arch/x86/config/defconfig.* pattern.

I think this patch should be dropped completely, it as it causes
multiple problems:

- it breaks existing scripts that use 'make x86_64_defconfig'
- it breaks 'make help' automatically printing the names
  of the defconfigs
- it's inconsistent with the other architectures

       Arnd