Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753034AbXKKFKX (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:10:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750733AbXKKFKM (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:10:12 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:48187 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750711AbXKKFKK (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:10:10 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:09:45 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Jeff Garzik , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , LKML , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] introduce K64BIT=y and backward compatibility ARCH={i386,x86_64} for x86 Message-ID: <20071111050945.GB21669@stusta.de> References: <20071110204038.GA13140@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071110204038.GA13140@uranus.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 974 Lines: 29 On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:40:38PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > As discussed in another thread the right thing is to add a generic solution > to select between 32 and 64 bit - useable for powerpc, s390, ppc et al. >... I seriously question this would be "the right thing". 32/64bit isn't that special that this and only this option would require special casing, and the KISS principle of having only one way to specify something like this has it's advantages. > Sam cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/