Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935591AbXKPXeS (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:34:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762796AbXKPXeH (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:34:07 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:56128 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752368AbXKPXeD (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:34:03 -0500 Message-ID: <473E28E0.8050307@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:33:52 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: Andreas Herrmann , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kconfig: ARCH=x86 causes wrong utsname.machine References: <20071116111446.GA16968@devil> <20071116123747.GA12086@devil> <473DB52F.2040703@zytor.com> <20071116221535.GA1810@uranus.ravnborg.org> <473E209A.7080806@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <473E209A.7080806@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 490 Lines: 17 H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >> Should we report a "make ARCH=x86" as uname -m == x86?? >> > > That would break 5 years of a stable ABI. I don't think that is even > remotely feasible. > Make that 5 years for x86-64, 16 years for i386... -hpa - 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/