Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756287AbXKSQGT (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:06:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754206AbXKSQGH (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:06:07 -0500 Received: from outbound-blu.frontbridge.com ([65.55.251.16]:32341 "EHLO outbound3-blu-R.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753706AbXKSQGF (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:06:05 -0500 X-BigFish: VP X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: OrigIP: 163.181.251.22;Service: EHS X-Server-Uuid: DF9F24A0-1A5C-40A5-8B0A-DEB676E72ECF Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:00:24 +0100 From: "Andreas Herrmann" To: "Sam Ravnborg" cc: "Andreas Herrmann" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Thomas Gleixner" , "Ingo Molnar" , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Roman Zippel" , "LKML" , "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix UTS_MACHINE to be i386 for 32-bit build and x86_64 for 64-bit build Message-ID: <20071119160024.GA11309@alberich.amd.com> References: <20071117143731.GA7129@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20071119093437.GA5104@devil> <20071119104129.GA10731@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20071119104129.GA10731@uranus.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Nov 2007 16:00:23.0113 (UTC) FILETIME=[4AC0C390:01C82AC5] X-WSS-ID: 6B5F6C9307S3019444-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1426 Lines: 44 On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:41:29AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:34:37AM +0100, Andreas Herrmann wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 03:37:31PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > > > Note: This patch does not fix the uname -m issue - to do so > > > Andreas' patch is needed. > > > > > > Sam > > > > Linus, > > > > The issue Sam refers to is that UTS_MACHINE is set to "x86" instead of > > "i386" or "x86_64" when building with ARCH=x86. Thus the new kernel > > when booted will give either "x86" on x86_64 and many i386 systems or > > even "x66" on other i386 systems for 'uname -m'. > > > > Many tools rely on the usual values of "x86_64", "i366" and "i686" > > here. So we shouldn't change this. > > Andreas - I will suggest you to submit a new patch with > a better changelog where you jsut describe what you fix. > The above explanations looks a bit weird if read stand alone. Ok, I'll resend the patch with an updated changelog asap. > You can always add additional comments after the line containing: > --- > > In this way it is not included in the changelog but Linus can read it. > > Anyway - your patch has my ack. Thanks, Andreas - 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/